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Most approaches to imposter syndrome frame it as an obstacle to be overcome, a bug to be fixed, an adversary to be defeated. What…
The piece that most imposter syndrome content misses is the belonging piece.
This is not about individual fault. It’s about recognizing that some commonly recommended approaches to imposter syndrome, while well-intentioned, have specific failure modes that…
There is one distinction, clearly held, that changes the workability of imposter syndrome more than almost anything else.
The counterintuitive truth: imposter syndrome is more prevalent among people who are actually competent than among people who aren’t.
The popular understanding of imposter syndrome is shaped by its pop-psychology simplification. The research tells a somewhat different and considerably more nuanced story.
What you call imposter syndrome has layers. The visible layer — the thoughts, the fear of exposure, the holding back — is the presentation.…
Imposter syndrome feels personal because the content is specific to you — your specific inadequacies, your specific gaps, your specific fears about what would…
The standard account of imposter syndrome’s origins goes roughly like this: high-achieving people sometimes underestimate their abilities and fear being exposed as less competent…
Understanding what drives imposter syndrome at a mechanical level — what it’s actually doing and why — changes the relationship to it. The pattern…
The surface of imposter syndrome — the thoughts, the fear of exposure, the holding back — is what’s visible. Underneath the surface is a…
The research on imposter syndrome spans five decades and multiple disciplines — social psychology, clinical psychology, neuroscience, organizational behavior, and developmental psychology. Looking across…