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Impostor syndrome is about your lack of belief in your skill at something. Having self-efficacy is a healthy amount of belief in your skill at something. If we increase the latter, we get rid of the former. We need to get you to believe that your ability - not luck or mere hard work - is the primary active ingredient in your success.

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Self-efficacy is your belief about your ability to accomplish a specific goal while self-esteem is a judgment of personal worth. My self-efficacy about my ability to eat ice cream might be high, but I don't think that makes me a good person. And confidence is more generalized, while self...

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Impostor Syndrome is like being a secret agent - in the most depressing way imaginable.

No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you achieve, ...

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The Impostor Syndrome: Self-Efficacy Is The Antidote

The antidote to the impostor syndrome is self-efficacy, which is about learning one's own value.

Self-efficacy is described as a perceived ability to succeed at a particular task. It means having rock-solid confidence, a supercharged belief in your ability.

LEARN TO RECOGNISE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME FOR WHAT IT IS – SELF DOUBT & SOMETHING WE ALL HAVE

When you understand that self doubt and a lack of confidence is something that most people have experienced at some time, it becomes easier to push through these feelings and believe that if other people have overcome impostor syndrome it’s possible for you too.

Five Ways To Handle Impostor Syndrome

  1. Instead of a constant judgement of your thoughts, we must find acceptance and get curious over the feelings, dumping the negativity around them.
  2. Delving a bit into our own childhood, we can try to be compassionate towards ourselves...

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