The Impostor Syndrome

What holds us back from being more confident at work is often a sense that we are fundamentally different from those who succeed. We suffer – needlessly – from The Impostor Syndrome.

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Produced in collaboration with Zedem Media

[Shindai]

As some smart person said, we see our blooper reel and othets' highlights reel.

[ComradeAgopian]

Bravo ! I love my time with my internet therapist .

[wills]

It’s weird isn’t it, I worked so hard to get straight A’s on my exams, yet I still don’t feel like I deserve it.

[kmdash]

I don't know about other people, but I feel like an imposter because I feel like I'm not living a life true to my authentic self. I pretend to be someone other people will accept rather than who I want to be.

[haranjung]

When I was 15 years old, I always imagined adults at 20s would be doing big things and getting their lives in order. Now that I am in my mid-20s, I feel so stupid for having thought about it that way. I talked to my friends who are in their 30s, being moms and dads, they still sometimes are little insecure children inside not knowing what to do. I then realized that age has nothing to do with our living and archieving, there is no right or wrong way to live a life, and life will all be filled with both happiness, sadness, humiliation, appreciation, etc.
Then I started to feel less scared.

[andrewthomas]

This video summed up in 6 minutes and 47 seconds what has been going through my mind for the last few years...

[daniel_najar]

"We know ourselves from the inside but we know others only from the outside"

[HH-sbmk]

Everyone is broken. My life changed when I accepted that.

[sarawawa]

I always walk away from conversations feeling like an idiot and thinking about all the stupid things I said, etc., when it suddenly hit me! What if the person I was talking to is walking away thinking the same things about themselves? Even though they didn't say anything silly! What if they have regret for things they didn't say or poorly worded sentences? It was a crazy a-ha moment, let me tell you.

[Efrain]

Anyone else feel like this video came in a perfect point in their life?

[nathantrudgill]

this is why you stay away from social media

[megazeero]

DON'T SORT THE COMMENTS BY NEW

WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE

[ojvvyzw]

I get a thrill out of being an imposter. It's funny to me that anybody trusts me to do anything.

[ultmate]

man some of these videos are really hitting home

[yeatnumberDmuncher]

I feel like an impostor daily and I always seem to sabotage myself by focusing on these negative thoughts. I wish I could vent to someone about my feelings.

[oftenwrong.]

My Dad always seemed so together. He told me one day “Do you think I’ve always been this way” I loved my Dad! The best man I’ve ever known

[krithikalakshmanan]

Its easy to understand this, but so much more harder to accept and practice it in everyday life!

[caketurtles]

4:22 ....seriously, who grabs just one piece? I don't like getting shit on my hands, personally.

[ExcIibur]

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[Taxninjaz]

I felt this way with every job I've had. An imposter for that role.