Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 11
🤔How can I ensure that my children will be less likely to feel this way when they grow up?
☝🏻Awareness.
They might stumble into a room where they rapidly assess that they are not good enough to be there.
They might fail and fail again, ever wondering if they should just give up.
Awareness enables their revelation that feeling like an imposter is not a syndrome. It’s human.
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Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 10
🤔On why we feel #impostersyndrome the 'I don't know enough' option [from the workshop exercise] was most picked [in our cohort]. How does this differ person to person?
☝From #YouAreNotAFraud, analysis of 800+ accounts revealed a Top 10 Imposter Phrases list.
"I don't know enough" was top.
Some people conclude they "don't belong" or that they're "not good enough" because they think they "don't know enough".
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Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 9
🤔What causes imposter syndrome?
☝🏻Childhood, working environment, or a combination of both.
Childhood labels (the ‘smart’ one, ‘clever’ one) play a role in susceptibility to imposter experiences.
In parallel, with more quantified research, is environment. It’s known that comparing ourselves to others, while useful, is dangerous when context is ignored.
Your imposter experience is as individual as your fingerprint.
Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 8
🤔Does 'imposter syndrome' ease outside the academic bubble?
☝🏻Not necessarily.
Feeling like a fraud is not particular to academia. That would be like saying “only academic people are ambitious”.
This helps frame another reason why it’s important to think about MANAGING rather than CURING your so-called #impostersyndrome. With every new ambition comes a new possibility to feel like a phoney…
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Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 7
🤔What [other] coping mechanisms do you lean on when it comes to manage Imposter Syndrome?
☝🏻Do a deep-dive into how and why you compare yourself to others around you.
Consider who inspires and intimidates you. Whose success daunts you into apparent defeat? This is key to many people’s experience with the so-called #ImposterSyndrome.
Many modern drivers can tempt us to compare without context.
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Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 6
🤔How do I get over this?
☝🏻You don’t.
For every new challenge, every higher ambition you set yourself, comes a new opportunity for your so-called Imposter Syndrome to read its head.
When, instead of a cure, you look for a way to manage your imposter experiences, you allow an apparent enemy to become an old friend.
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Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 5
🤔Imposter syndrome is a nasty knot of fear that I’m not good enough that stops me from even trying to succeed. How do I tackle such procrastination?
☝🏻There is an intimate link between the so-called Imposter Syndrome and a fear of failure.
You can fail. You will fail. Over and over.
Then (perhaps only then) you’ll find the way towards your goal…
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Imposter Syndrome Masterclass Q&A Part 4
🤔How do you assess yourself where you are in the confidence and competent graph?
☝🏻If you’re at all aware of your competence, it’s likely you’re not resting on mount stupid.
If you feel like a fraud at work, you’re likely to be very aware of when you hit the ‘Valley of Despair’.
The remedy is to focus on the consistent efforts you need to apply in order to achieve the mastery you desire.
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🤔 How does self confidence and self esteem play into the imposter syndrome?
☝🏻The so-called Imposter Syndrome is more a story of low self-confidence than of low self-esteem.
A feature of the imposter experience is that it happens in ambitious people. It’s triggered by a desire to achieve and a concurrent fear of the unknown. Low self-esteem is something other.
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Answering 50+ questions curated during my Imposter Syndrome Masterclass.
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🤔”Does Imposter Syndrome ever get better?”
☝🏻Yes, it can.
It can be insightful to start raising your #impostersyndrome self-awareness by taking something like Clance’s Imposter Phenomenon Scale survey. It scores your intensity of imposter experience from 20-100.
Such reflective exercises can make you think that this score of your imposter experience will one day be etched on your gravestone.
Your imposter ‘score’ is not static.
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Dr Marc Reid