From the course: Coping with Impostor Syndrome to Build Career Confidence
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What triggers impostor syndrome
From the course: Coping with Impostor Syndrome to Build Career Confidence
What triggers impostor syndrome
- Whether we confidently embrace new challenges, or feel stifling self doubt has a lot to do with our own sense of identity, who we are and what we feel we're capable of. That's why we're so susceptible to impostorism during periods of identity expansion. When we're redefining our sense of self. Moments of identity expansion might include transitioning careers, graduating from school, landing your first big management role, or even becoming a parent for the first time. Now, sometimes we bring ourselves to these moments of identity expansion, like when we pursue a promotion, and sometimes they find us like in the case of an unforeseen layoff, but either way, if we don't take concrete action to actively shape our sense of self in these new situations, the environment that we find ourselves in, or the people we find ourselves surrounded by can end up making us feel like an impostor by default. For instance, if you've…
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