How Does Impostor Syndrome Affect You?
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Have you found a good way to describe it to people who just don’t get it?
Impostor syndrome can rear its head in a lot of different ways.
People who experience impostor syndrome – or impostor phenomenon – tend to be successful by external standards, but somehow can't see that themselves, or think their success is down to a fluke. You can take a test here to see how high you rate on the Impostor Phenomenon scale, created by Pauline Clance, one of the psychologists who first described the concept.
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Does your impostor syndrome make you think that, even though you get good feedback, your boss is going to "find you out" at any moment?
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Do you feel like, even though you've passed every exam so far with flying colours, you're bound to fail the next one?
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