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What is imposter syndrome and how can you combat it? - Elizabeth Cox
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Even after writing eleven books and winning several prestigious awards,
Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt
that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments.
Albert Einstein experienced something similar:
he described himself as an “involuntary swindler”
whose work didn’t deserve as much attention as it had received.
Accomplishments at the level of Angelou’s or Einstein’s are rare,
but their feeling of fraudulence is extremely common.
Why can’t so many of us shake feelings
that we haven’t earned our accomplishments,
or that our ideas and skills aren’t worthy of others’ attention?
Psychologist Pauline Rose Clance was the first to study
this unwarranted sense of insecurity.
In her work as a therapist,
she noticed many of her undergraduate patients shared a concern:
though they had high grades,
they didn’t believe they deserved their spots at the university.
Some even believed their acceptance had been an admissions error.
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