We live in the golden age of information a.k.a. the digital age. A constant influx of information reminds us that knowledge is at our fingertips at any given time. We have never been more overwhelmed with information and data in history than today, and we have also never been more aware in a collective sense, …
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Dr. Valerie Young wrote the book, ‘The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women’ and classified five different types of impostor experiences, which is what this article will cover. Here are the different types of impostors she describes and how each type can possibly be overcome. Perfectionist Perfectionists set excessively high standards for themselves, and when they’re …
Have you ever once felt so concerned by what people will think when they discover that you are a fraud? You have not committed any criminal act or engaged in intentional deception, and yet, here you are feeling sorry for your inadequacy, and feeling apologetic to others over something you think you are, and feeling …
Clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes have concluded after their research that people who go through the impostor phenomenon or experience are very strongly convinced that they do not deserve the success they have achieved. They fail to acknowledge their own accomplishments despite the presence of obvious evidence that they are responsible for their …
What is one thing that many highly accomplished individuals like Albert Einstein, Maya Angelou, John Steinback, and even Emma Watson and Meryl Streep all have in common? Aside from their name ringing a bell at the mere mention of it, not to mention their level of fame and achievements, they all seemed to possess an …