Ask yourself these questions:

From The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It :

• Do you chalk your success up to luck, timing or computer error?

People are afraid that even if they develop self-efficacy they'll backslide into impostor feelings. Don't worry. If you really go out of your way to push hard on the 4 principles above, self-efficacy can become as stubbornly lodged in your brain as the feeling that you're a fraud is now.

When work is a blur it's easy to think you just got lucky. But I'm guessing you've noticed that people who are very confident about their abilities can often explain them to you. They're aware of their system. Step outside yourself and notice what you do that gets the results. As the great Carl J...

• Enactive mastery experience: Recognize your system. Tennis lessons don't increase tennis luck.
• Vicarious experience: If they can do it, you can do it.
• Social persuasion: I, for one, happen to think The Force is ...