Impostorism steals our power and suffocates our presence.
We’re scattered-worrying that we underprepared, obsessing about what we should be doing, mentally reviewing what we said five seconds earlier, fretting about what people think of us and what that will mean for us tomorrow. It makes us fixate on how we think others are judging us (in these fixations, we’re usually wrong), then fixate some more on how those judgments might poison our interactions. Impostorism causes us to overthink and second-guess. Psychologists refer to it as impostor syndrome, the impostor phenomenon, impostor fears, and impostorism. It’s not simple stage fright or performance anxiety rather, it’s the deep and sometimes paralyzing belief that we have been given something we didn’t earn and don’t deserve and that at some point we’ll be exposed.
Most of us have experienced it, at least to some degree. The general feeling that we don’t belong-that we’ve fooled people into thinking we’re more competent and talented than we actually are-is not so unusual.
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