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Imposter Syndrome | Talk by Chaitali Sharma & Richa Jha

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Impostor syndrome (IS) refers to an internal feeling of believing that you are not as competent as others perceive you to be. ‘Imposters’ suffer from chronic self-doubt and a sense of intellectual fraudulence that overrides any feelings of success.

To put it simply, you feel as though at any moment you are going to be found out as a fraud, like you don't belong where you are, you don’t deserve the success you have achieved, and as though you only got there through dumb luck. The more you accomplish, the more you just feel like a fraud.

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Richa Jha & Chaitali Sharma

Quotes

  • “Imposter syndrome is like any emotion. It’s really good data, but it’s not an eternal fact.” 
  • “At a certain point in the life cycle of the ego, we will feel that we don’t deserve anything.” 
  • “When we suppress the little pains because we are tough and we are thick-skinned, we lose our hearts and we let our egos run the show.”
  • “As soon as there is a pressure of performing like somebody else, we naturally become imposters.”
  • "We need to keep in mind that nothing actually belongs to us"
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