The Grasshopper Syndrome: Self Doubt

Conquering the Grasshopper Syndrome

Angela Heath: I call it the “Grasshopper Syndrome,” but I did not make it up, it comes from a bible study. In the Bible, there was a group of people who were coming into a land that belonged to another group of people. Well, they sent spies into that land to see if that land was truly the land of promise that God said it was and when they came back they reported: “You know, all of them, (the majority of the spies except for the two), all came back and said the same thing: This land that you’re sending us into is filled with milk and honey. It’s a great land, it’s got great produces, is a good land. However, the people are giants, and not only are they giants. When we look at them, we look like grasshoppers in our own eyes.”

They didn’t say that the people called them grasshoppers. They said we look like grasshoppers in our eyes when we look at them. So, I call it the “Grasshopper Syndrome” and that is when we’re looking at somebody else who’s looking at us and we believe that they’re judging us to be less than what we are but whose problem is that? Because in this case, those people in the land had not said a word. They didn’t say a word but they said “we look at them and we look like grasshoppers.”

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