Popular misconceptions about “impostor syndrome” have spawned four myths that need debunking for managers to effectively understand and address its effects in the workplace, MIT Sloan School of ...

In her excellent book The Charisma Myth (Penguin Books, 2013), Olivia Fox Cabane reports a curious yet highly reliable phenomenon: Every year, she asks the incoming class at Stanford Business School, ...

Feeling like a hack is more common than you might think. In fact, 58 percent of people with technology-focused careers suffer from Impostor Syndrome, according to a new informal study from workplace ...

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an impostor anxiously awaiting exposure - Nathaniel Branden, psychotherapist. I received a compliment on ...

More than 40 years ago, two psychotherapists—Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes—noticed that many of their highly accomplished women clients did not “own” their success. The pattern was mystifying: These ...

You're on your way to an interview for a job at a company you'd love to work for. On paper, the position you're being considered for fits perfectly with the experience you have under your belt. You're ...

“This phenomenon of impostor syndrome is really the belief that ‘I can’t keep going.’ Which is not true, right? So, the cognitive distortion is thinking, ‘I can’t hang in there for this long-term goal ...

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Everyone feels it at some point in their professional life: I'm a fraud and everyone is about to find out. It's healthy to question your own qualifications and take pause, but then you need to find a ...