Even 70% of people may experience impostor syndrome

The impostor syndrome is a psychological phenomenon consisting of the lack of faith in one's own abilities and achievements despite objective evidence of the competencies one possesses. People with this syndrome usually feel that they didn't deserve their success. They doubt their competencies even despite their education, professional experience, positions held, or manifestations of universal recognition.

The term "impostor syndrome" was first used in the 1980s by American researchers and psychotherapists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes. In this way, they identified people who, after achieving success, experience an inner sense of intellectual falsehood and fear of evaluation and exposure.

"The impostor syndrome is a widespread and democratic phenomenon. It is a feeling that, even though we have enormous successes and evidence that we are great at something, internally we have a constant fear that someone will suddenly discover that we are not so great,” Magdalena Czaja, mentor, author of the Lovefiting method, said.

People suffering from this syndrome remain convinced that they are scammers and do not deserve the success they have achieved. They see its causes as a result of happiness, favorable circumstances, or as a result of being perceived as more intelligent and competent than they are. Michelle Obama confessed to experiencing impostor syndrome. Throughout the years of her husband's presidency, she was afraid that no one would take her seriously, because her only achievement was being the wife of a famous husband.

The lives of people with impostor syndrome are full of fear. However, there are ways to neutralize this syndrome.

"First and foremost, you have to realize that you have this syndrome, that it's not a real lack of competence that keeps us from doing something, but our sticky floor of beliefs, stereotypes that we have about ourselves," the mentor said.

(Newseria)