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If You Want to Feel Successful, Embrace Your Imposter Syndrome
Five Ways To Handle Impostor Syndrome
- Instead of a constant judgement of your thoughts, we must find acceptance and get curious over the feelings, dumping the negativity around them.
- Delving a bit into our own childhood, we can try to be compassionate towards ourselves, gently handling our emotions and worries.
- Realize that the feeling of impostor syndrome is just a byproduct of being out of your comfort zone, and into the learning zone.
- Make use of the impostor syndrome to work hard and push yourself to improvise, for yourself.
- Engage with such feelings in a healthy, objective way and understand that your achievements are a sign of your intelligence.
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