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The good news is there are some simple steps you can take right away to build your confidence and overcome impostor syndrome.

By incorporating these 4 behaviors into your routine, you should have a more defined sense of the value and experience you bring to each exchange in the workplace. These tactics can help you start to own your success and stop feeling like a fraud:

1. Focus on the facts.

List your achievements and objectively assess the skills, capabilities, and qualities that helped you succeed thus far. Allow yourself to feel proud of your accomplishments. Consciously avoid giving “luck” credit for your success.

2. Challenge limiting beliefs.

Examine your deep-seated beliefs about the criteria for success. Then look for facts or examples to test whether these criteria are actually valid, and how they might hold you back. Recognize the valuable perspective you’ve gained from personal hardships you’ve faced.

3. Claim your strength.

Instead of focusing on your weaknesses, embrace your assets, and reflect on how to leverage them more fully. Advocate for yourself and own your strengths. Don’t shy away from some authentic self-promotion.

4. Talk about it.

Share your feelings with trusted friends, colleagues, a mentor, or an executive coach to put them in perspective and help you reinforce the positive changes you are making. Then, move on. Avoid rumination, which just creates stress, or letting yourself dwell.

You can refer to this:

resiliens.com/resilify/program/overcoming-imposter-syndrome

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-Low self-belief disempowers through self-doubt and low self-esteem which…

-Hits self-confidence causing stress, lack of conviction, and other self-sabotaging behaviors leading to…

-Inauthentic behaviors and subtle body language cues and voice tremors that convey to others the inner turmoil being suffered despite their best efforts to hide it. This drives…

-Uninspiring leadership, low trust, poorer decision-making, procrastination and hesitancy with less gravitas and charisma delivering worse results which are magnified by…

-Self-criticism and conformational bias including self doubts based upon upbringing, gender, age or ethnic/BLM discrimination – that all reinforce the original impostor syndrome belief into an accelerating downward spiral.

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resiliens.com/resilify/program/overcoming-imposter-syndrome

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Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon or impostorism, is a psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon do not believe they deserve their success or luck.

Signals of Impostor Phenomenon include:

-A belief that one has fooled others into overrating one’s abilities

-The attribution of personal success to factors other than one’s ability or intelligence, such as luck, misjudgment, charm, networking, presentation skills, or a lowering of standards

-The IP cycle: “Impostors” start tasks with extreme overpreparation, or with initial procrastination followed by frenzied preparation. If the task is achieved successfully, a person with IP would experience a feeling of accomplishment and relief. The new cycle begins once a new achievement task is encountered, and feelings of self-doubt and anxiety recur. The chart below illustrates this cycle.

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resiliens.com/resilify/program/overcoming-imposter-syndrome

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People who struggle with imposter syndrome believe that they are undeserving of their achievements and the high esteem in which they are, in fact, generally held. They feel that they aren’t as competent or intelligent as others might think—and that soon enough, people will discover the truth about them. Those with imposter syndrome are often well accomplished; they may hold high office or have numerous academic degrees.

Why do people with imposter syndrome feel like frauds even though there is abundant evidence of their success? Instead of acknowledging their capabilities as well as their efforts, they often attribute their accomplishments to external or transient causes, such as luck, good timing, or effort that they cannot regularly expend. Whether in the areas of academic achievement or career success, a person can struggle with pressure and personal expectations.

Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon or impostorism, is a psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon do not believe they deserve their success or luck. They may incorrectly attribute it to the Matthew effect, or they may think that they are deceiving others because they feel as if they are not as intelligent as they outwardly portray themselves to be.

You can refer to this:

resiliens.com/resilify/program/overcoming-imposter-syndrome

#ImposterSyndrome

Impostor syndrome, also known as impostor phenomenon or impostorism, is a psychological occurrence in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon do not believe they deserve their success or luck. They may incorrectly attribute it to the Matthew effect, or they may think that they are deceiving others because they feel as if they are not as intelligent as they outwardly portray themselves to be.

Impostor syndrome can stem from and result in strained personal relationships and can hinder individuals from achieving their full potential in their fields of interest.

When impostor syndrome was first conceptualized, it was viewed as a phenomenon that was common among high-achieving women. Further research has shown that it affects both men and women, in the collective sense that the proportion affected are more or less equally distributed among the genders. Individuals with impostor syndrome often have corresponding mental health issues, which may be treated with psychological interventions, though the phenomenon is not a formal mental disorder.

The imposter syndrome is a psychological term referring to a pattern of behavior where people doubt their accomplishments and have a persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud. Not an actual disorder, the term was coined by clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes in 1978, when they found that despite having adequate external evidence of accomplishments, people with imposter syndrome remained convinced that they don’t deserve the success they have.

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resiliens.com/resilify/program/overcoming-imposter-syndrome

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You might have imposter syndrome if you find yourself consistently experiencing self-doubt, even in areas where you typically excel.1 Imposter syndrome may feel like restlessness and nervousness, and it may manifest as negative self-talk. Symptoms of anxiety and depression often accompany imposter syndrome.

Imposter syndrome is not a diagnosable mental illness. Instead, the term is usually narrowly applied to intelligence and achievement, although it also has links to perfectionism and the social context. Psychologists Suzanna Imes and Pauline Rose Clance first used this term in the 1970s.

Some common characteristics of imposter syndrome include:

-An inability to realistically assess your competence and skills

-Attributing your success to external factors

-Berating your performance

-Fear that you won't live up to expectations

-Overachieving

-Sabotaging your own success

-Self-doubt

-Setting very challenging goals and feeling disappointed when you fall short

You can refer to this:

resiliens.com/resilify/program/overcoming-imposter-syndrome

Imposter syndrome can cause you to feel insecure, burned out, and full of self-doubt. If you struggle with imposter syndrome then check out this week's podcast episode to learn different ways you can remedy imposter syndrome such as Dr. Emee's TLC questioning sequence.

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