Impostor syndrome

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐮𝐭.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 🔄

The more you achieve, the more you feel like you're fooling everyone.

𝘞𝘩𝘺? Because your standards rise faster than your self-perception.
Last year's impossible goal becomes this year's minimum expectation.

Your brain focuses on the gap between where you are and where you think you should be, not how far you've actually come.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐢𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 🎯

Most professionals have:
→ Clear job descriptions 📋
→ Established career paths 🛤️
→ Industry benchmarks 📊
→ Regular performance reviews ✅

Founders have:
→ Making it up as they go 🤷‍♂️
→ No roadmap for their journey 🗺️
→ Constantly changing success metrics 📈
→ Everyone looking to them for answers 👀

You're literally doing things that have never been done before. Of course you feel like you don't know what you're doing; nobody does.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐲𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐞 🎁

Impostor syndrome means you have 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴.
It means you care about doing 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬.
It means you're pushing 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 your comfort zone.
The people who never feel like impostors? They're usually not growing.

𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞 💭
𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧: "I don't know what I'm doing"
𝒯𝓇𝓎: "I'm learning as I build something unprecedented"

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧: "They're going to find out I'm a fraud"
𝒯𝓇𝓎: "I'm being transparent about what I don't know yet"

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧: "I don't deserve this success"
𝒯𝓇𝓎: "I earned this through courage and persistence"

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧: "Everyone else has it figured out"
𝒯𝓇𝓎: "Everyone else is also making it up as they go"

Ready to transform impostor syndrome from self-doubt into growth fuel? This mindset shift is core to the performance psychology work we do together.