From Self-Doubt to Self-Belief: Mastering Impostor Syndrome

The feeling that your accomplishments are never enough and that your skills don’t live up to the expectations of others is known as the impostor syndrome.

It is this overwhelming feeling that you do not deserve your success. This little voice in your head tells you that you are less talented, intelligent and creative than you may seem. It feels like what you achieved in your life was either excellent timing or luck and that you will be exposed as a fraud one day.

The worst part is that these feelings usually creep up on you in your most significant moments of success, like starting a new job or receiving praise from others.

But why do we feel like this? The root cause of the imposter syndrome is an unhelpful picture of what other people are like. We end up feeling like frauds not because we are uniquely flawed but because we do not see how deeply flawed everyone else is.

The fact is, We are very well aware of our feelings, thoughts, imperfections and fears. We spend much time thinking, worrying and reflecting on ourselves. But we need to gain this kind of insight from everyone around us. We can see their actions and what they decide to share with us. But these are not insights but a narrower and edited view of how they operate.

We completely fail to imagine that others must have similar feelings as we do. Rest assured, they will have some agonising feelings that haunt them. Vulnerability and shame are…