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Imposter No More: Overcome Self-Doubt and Imposterism to Cultivate a Successful Career
272 pages, Paperback
Published September 17, 2024
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September 14, 2024
Working to become the fully realized (key word REAL) person you are (even if you don’t believe it).
Imposter No More: Overcome Self-doubt and Imposterism to Cultivate a Successful Career by Jill A. Stoddard is a good look at the history and nature of imposter syndrome.
This will open your eyes to the insidious nature of imposter syndrome, including how for some cultures it’s the rule rather than the exception.
Even though different “types” may have nice names (the natural genius, the superhuman), they are still in a cyclical period of self hate and doubt…with a nice flow chart of different types of behavior that I recognized either in myself or others.
After covering the syndrome in decent (not exhaustive) detail, the author presents methods of combat it. Some deal with self-care, expanding your emotion or physical limits for dealing with stuff, even situational awareness and examples of how we avoid social obligations.
One particularly grim chapter (trying to help in a positive way) presented a workshop on how we might be remembered or spoken of after we are gone…by writing an example epitaph. It helps you think about your mark on the world and those you love and how you might change it…or at least improve things.
It’s some pretty heavy material offered in a light hearted way, so it’s a bit of a downer at times…and that’s a good thing…because you a tree ntly likely to get better until you acknowledge how much you feel like you aren’t “real”.
Imposter No More: Overcome Self-doubt and Imposterism to Cultivate a Successful Career by Jill A. Stoddard is a good look at the history and nature of imposter syndrome.
This will open your eyes to the insidious nature of imposter syndrome, including how for some cultures it’s the rule rather than the exception.
Even though different “types” may have nice names (the natural genius, the superhuman), they are still in a cyclical period of self hate and doubt…with a nice flow chart of different types of behavior that I recognized either in myself or others.
After covering the syndrome in decent (not exhaustive) detail, the author presents methods of combat it. Some deal with self-care, expanding your emotion or physical limits for dealing with stuff, even situational awareness and examples of how we avoid social obligations.
One particularly grim chapter (trying to help in a positive way) presented a workshop on how we might be remembered or spoken of after we are gone…by writing an example epitaph. It helps you think about your mark on the world and those you love and how you might change it…or at least improve things.
It’s some pretty heavy material offered in a light hearted way, so it’s a bit of a downer at times…and that’s a good thing…because you a tree ntly likely to get better until you acknowledge how much you feel like you aren’t “real”.
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