Often, I feel like a complete fraud. As a PhD student in biomedical engineering, I realize that this feeling is irrational. But I cannot quite shake off the sense that I am just one of those lucky ...

The term impostor syndrome, coined in 1978, is described as a feeling of “phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement.” ...

Not a day passes without my questioning my abilities: as a writer, a commentator, and—most of all—as an academic. I wonder if I have talent, or am I just faking it? Not a day passes without my ...

October 28, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Everyone feels it at some point in their professional life: I'm a fraud and everyone is about to find out. It's ...

Feeling like a hack is more common than you might think. In fact, 58 percent of people with technology-focused careers suffer from Impostor Syndrome, according to a new informal study from workplace ...

If you struggle to hush the voice at the back of your mind that tells you you’re not good enough, you might be dealing with impostor syndrome. Have you ever felt like you’re just one step away from ...

Impostor syndrome is a relatively new concept, first coined in 1978 in a medical journal. In an article called "The Impostor Phenomenon in High Achieving Women: Dynamics and Therapeutic Intervention," ...

On the worst days, it feels as if I exist at the bottom of a deep, dark, damp hole. There are iron rungs affixed to the side, so I grab on and begin to hoist myself up with vigor. But after hours of ...

You're on your way to an interview for a job at a company you'd love to work for. On paper, the position you're being considered for fits perfectly with the experience you have under your belt. You're ...

In her excellent book The Charisma Myth (Penguin Books, 2013), Olivia Fox Cabane reports a curious yet highly reliable phenomenon: Every year, she asks the incoming class at Stanford Business School, ...