How To Overcome Impostor Syndrome and Embrace Your Accomplishments
pickthebrain.comImpostor syndrome is defined as an inability or struggle to accept and identify yourself as competent or successful despite your level of education, skills, and accomplishments.
Characterized by constant doubt of one’s capabilities and achievements, it is a mindset that fuels anxiety, self-doubt, and an innate belief of inadequacy that often goes unchecked in individuals of all backgrounds and ages.
If all this sounds familiar to you, keep reading to learn how to overcome impostor syndrome and accept and celebrate your successes.While the specific reasons that cause impostor syndrome to develop may vary from person to person, it can commonly result from upbringing and childhood backgrounds characterized by traits like perfectionism, the overvaluation of success, or on the other extreme, a lack of support or indifference to it.It is easy to feel like nothing you do will ever be good enough and that you will never measure up if you grew up either never having your progress properly acknowledged or having your mistakes and failures repeatedly picked at.Another common cause is the pervasive societal pressure to be successful and to look like it.
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