Beating Imposter Syndrome
In today´s episode of ‘Professional Success Podcast’ Sheila Leader shares few tips on how to get rid of impostor syndrome. She shares her personal experience of overcoming it and also highlights some facts about it.
Episode Highlights:
· Impostor syndrome is that terrible feeling where everyone can see you're perfectly qualified to be there to ask for that to win the deal to be successful, except you.
· Impostor syndrome is not terminal and no pills are required to treat it.
· We are wired to see the bad in ourselves, but the good in others and you can use this to your advantage by choosing a trusted friend or colleague, who will tell you all the reasons that your fear is unbounded, they can see your qualification, what helps you stand out from everyone else, and sometimes hearing that from an external source that can help you to counteract that noise of that internal voice.
· We need to fight fear with logic while defensively to do the scary things, recognizing and labelling impostor syndrome, getting support from others and planning for the worst.
· Our impostor syndrome has had years of practice, it's embedded in our brain and our wiring, so we won't be able to defeat it overnight.
3 Key Points:
1. It is that feeling that you don't deserve the success you've achieved or that you're somehow fooling everybody into believing you're much more competent or qualified or capable than you are.
2. To overcome it, first, we need to recognize and label impostor syndrome, next tip is to grab a trusted friend or colleague, tell them what you want to do and what's holding you back and ask for their unfiltered opinion. Third tip is to practice fear setting and the final step is to be patient, to practice and to be persistent.
3. It takes time, patience, practice and persistence to conquer impostor syndrome, so hang in there as you deserve your success.
Tweetable Quotes:
· “If you're not a doctor and you're afraid to perform surgery, that's not impostor syndrome.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “Your impostor syndrome is a version of your meanest inner critic.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “For fear care and self-doubt, they can drive even after you've done your best to eliminate them.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
· “So, let's kick this imposter syndrome, to the curb.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli
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