<img src="https://www.bakadesuyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/how-to-overcome-impostor-syndrome.jpg"> Wall Street Journal 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, you still feel like a fraud. You still question your ability and you're waiting to be exposed. More formally, it's often referred to as "a failure to internalize success." You attribute your accomplishments to luck or insane amounts of effort, but never talent or skill.

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>

Let's start with the one that is, in general, most powerful... When most people perform well they attribute it to skill on their part. (Maybe they are too inclined to attribute it to personal skill, but that's a topic for a different, much more cynical post.) But if you're dealing with impostor syndrome, this natural tendency to assume you're a virtuoso is on the fritz. You do a great job and the default attribution bucket isn't skill - it's luck, overwork or invisible elves that accomplished everything while you were napping. Many interpret enactive mastery experience as "keep working hard and you'll see it's your natural ability that's causing the results." If that was true, impostor syndrome wouldn't exist. In fact, if you don't actively change your default attributions, merely seeing yourself succeed isn't going to fix impostor syndrome - it's going to make it worse.

<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>

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