Ask yourself these questions: From <a href="https://geni.us/stsw">The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It </a>: <ul><li>Do you chalk your success up to luck, timing or computer error? </li><li>Do you believe "if I can do it, anybody can"? </li><li>Do you agonize over the smallest flaws in your work? </li><li>Are your crushed by even constructive criticism, seeing it as evidence of your ineptness? </li><li>When you do succeed, do you secretly feel like you fooled them again? </li><li>Do you worry that it's a matter of time before you're "found out"? </li> </ul>

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.

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 Jung once said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

But here's the upside : you can now use your knowledge of this emotional blurriness to your advantage. Since the cause and meaning of feelings is all about interpretation, you can choose to interpret them differently . The court of emotions has an appeals process. If you can reframe the feelings into something transient or unrelated to the task at hand then your self-efficacy doesn't plummet. ...if the meaning of an affective state is altered by attributing it to a nonemotional or transient irrelevant source, the state does not affect evaluative judgment because it is considered uninformative for the judgment at hand. For example, interviewers who attribute their accelerated heart rate to having rushed up a set of stairs are less likely to wonder about their capabilities to manage the interview situation than interviewers who read their pounding heart as a sign of distress.

<ul><li>Enactive mastery experience: Recognize your system. Tennis lessons don't increase tennis luck. </li><li>Vicarious experience: If they can do it, you can do it. </li><li>Social persuasion: I, for one, happen to think The Force is very strong with you. So there. </li><li>Emotional/physiological states: Reframe feelings. You're not antsy because you want this blog post to end, you're just so very very excited to be reading it. </li> </ul>

How to get rid of imposter sy

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.

Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. *** Impostor Syndrome is like being a secret agent - in the most depressing way imaginable.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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