Impostor syndrome—that feeling that you’re not as smart as others believe you are–may be getting a bad rap. First identified by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Clance in 1971 as the ...

On this week’s episode of Secrets of the Most Productive People, we discuss our experiences with impostor syndrome and how we’ve learned to combat it. Impostor syndrome is a common phenomenon among ...

Uncertainty in the workplace amplifies the conditions that trigger impostor syndrome. If your impostor feelings are spiking, ...

While Lisa Orbé-Austin was in college, a group of women approached her and asked what she’d scored on her SATs. “I knew in that moment, they were questioning whether I belong in my college or not, or ...

While impostor syndrome isn’t an official diagnosis, most mental health professionals have likely treated someone with it one time or another. In fact, many mental health professionals likely have ...

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Have you ever felt like everyone else knows what they're doing while you have no clue? Do you honestly believe your successes are about luck, and your failings all come down to you? Do you wonder when ...

Impostor syndrome is much more common than you’d think–over 70% of people have experienced it at one time or other in their lives. It is known that lots of entrepreneurial and high-achieving women ...

Popular misconceptions about “impostor syndrome” have spawned four myths that need debunking for managers to effectively understand and address its effects in the workplace, MIT Sloan School of ...

The women laughed, chatting away in Russian and nodding encouragingly at me. I couldn’t understand a word they were saying. This wasn’t a good sign — I had just arrived for my first day on the job as ...

In their new research paper, MIT Sloan assistant professor Basima Tewfik and co-authors unpack the complexities of the impostor phenomenon through a review of 316 peer-reviewed articles and books ...

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