If You Want to Feel Successful, Embrace Your Imposter Syndrome

The new generation has experienced a never-ending stream of expectations, where their achievements are never enough. They are always pushed up on the edge of perfection, being rated and scored every moment.

This is a major cause of the phenomenon of the Impostor Syndrome, where an individual secretly has the notion of being incompetent or unqualified for the role or job, even though he or she may have been a high-achiever, and most likely a perfectionist.

• Most of the young achievers having impostor syndrome feel like a fraud and are constantly judging themselves as not being up-to-the-mark in their endeavours.
• Their parents may have empathized on achievements too much, and engaged in praising or criticizing them during their formative years.
• They might attribute their achievements to pure luck, but blame themselves for their failures.