Tag: #impostersyndrome

Overcoming the dreaded ‘Imposter Syndrome’​

Imposter Syndrome is the feeling of being a fraud. Rather than getting to your current position, you feel like you have lucked your way through. You now fear being found out for this fact.

Imposter Syndrome sadly is a fairly common trait in the modern world; probably due to the prevalence of social media leading us to compare our lives with one another, mixed in with impossibly high requirements for entry-level jobs.

in my own experience through coaching, it is a topic that has come up alarmingly frequently and is seemingly more prevalent in women and ethnic minorities (probably due to a sense of being an outsider).

So what can you do to overcome Imposter Syndrome? Here are some ideas to support you:

Defining ourselves by our achievements is killing our success

The modern world is competitive, and the importance of being ‘the best’ is drilled into us from an early age.

Unfortunately, what we do not realise is the negative effect this whole experiences causes. Constant striving for greater achievements is actually harmful: both for ourselves in our wellbeing and in our professional career.

we owe it to explain these realities to those coming through the education system expecting big and bright things society has promised them, only to find an impossible job market.