Impostor syndrome: it’s a bitch.
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The cute cuddly furball
I think we all have that, I just call it fear, but enjoying what you do makes it a lot easier and in the end of the day if you get joy out of it, then it doesn’t matter what other people may or may not think.
Dan 26
This is an interesting subject. I have experienced this in the past, but I’m not sure I have any great advice. Disability adds a different layer to this issue, which is very common for everyone to some extent.
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Dan 26
One response to this is to feel like you need to work harder and be over prepared. In some sense this is not exactly a healthy response, but in another way it helped me mitigate stress, the way, for example, being overprepared for an interview can put you at ease mentally.
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Dan 26
Aside from work, I’ve felt this way in an academic setting. I was in a competitive graduate school program, but eventually I learned from speaking to other students that they were pretty much all feeling the same way.
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Dan 26
I read a newspaper article a couple years ago that was written by a prominent New York City psychotherapist who said her very rich and very successful clients all had some form of imposter syndrome
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Dan 26
I guess you can make an argument that if people don’t feel a little imposter syndrome at each new job then they are not growing professionally. Once you master the work your current job requires, shouldn’t you apply for something harder and reach for something more? Maybe you will always feel a bit of imposter syndrome until you look back on how much work you’ve mastered along the way
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Jim,man of GOD, friend to GOD
I have one question. When you first got this job what was your attitude and how did you feel? I guess I have two questions. However you felt upon getting this job, did it last or why didn’t it last? What caused you to doubt your own capabilities for doing this job?
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