Have you ever heard of the 'Impostor Syndrome' ?
Perhaps you have sometimes heard of it on social media or on TV, because according to numerous studies, it is the people who suffer the most from it. successful women .
What is it about? Of a sort of 'psychological condition' for which you convince yourself that you don't deserve your successes , your goals, the victories you have achieved.
And you dread that sooner or later someone will 'reveal' our secret , that is the fact that in reality we are not up to what we have done or our role, that we are not good, that we are not capable.
That perhaps, if we have been successful in some field - especially in the professional field -, it was only by pure luck, by coincidence, by the right timing... In short, we are afraid of be perceived as 'impostors' because we think others overrate us.
This condition actually arises from a latent problem of low self-esteem . Yes, because lack of self-esteem can affect anyone, regardless of social position, type of job, relationship status... It can also affect those who, from the outside, seem to have everything and to be really smart!
We attach little value to ourselves, we belittle ourselves. Sufferers of imposter syndrome
he feels, for example, that he does not deserve recognition such as promotions, career advancements… But not even compliments , on the contrary, he often ends up making fun of himself because he struggles to accept them.
It's like a guilt that's hard to control. Just these days the singer Alessandra Amoroso , for example, said that she turned to a psychologist because she felt she didn't deserve her success and, also Laura Pausini , in her latest press conference, said that she often felt almost 'wrong' for all the awards she has earned in her career because she wasn't sure she deserved them.
Obviously, this is a condition that can focus on any kind of success or good result, no need to be a singer!
Why does it fall into this vicious circle ? First of all, it happens very often at perfectionist people , who ask a lot of themselves and don't feel 'enough'. Even external acknowledgments and objective evidence of what has been done are not enough. Thus arises a sense of dissatisfaction and inadequacy for an ideal that is impossible to achieve, he snaps performance anxiety which becomes a source of great stress.
How to go about get out of this 'cage' And recognize your talents ?
Here are some tips from the experts:
- Listen to that inner voice that tends to demean your worth and you acknowledge this state; recognizing it, it will lose power and you may not give in to the instinct to believe it
- Talk about it with your partner, with friends, with close people who can objectively tell you how things are: comparison always helps and you will discover that perhaps other people also have the same insecurities as you
- You accept the fact that, even if you fail, experience a negative situation, lose what you have achieved, it does not mean that you are not worth it: life cannot be a continuous success , mistakes are needed to learn
- Write down in pen , on paper, your goals : reading them on paper, out of your head, is important to fix and recognize them over time
- Always be proud of what you do and of what you are remembering that Impostor Syndrome sufferers are not imposters! What you have, you deserve it!
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