confronting imposter syndrome

Confronting Imposter Syndrome

by Cindy F. SolomonMarch 22, 2014

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Cindy F. Solomon, CPM, CPMM

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• 20 years of web development, services, consulting & software product marketing and management at Apple, Vadem, NetObjects and start-ups in Silicon Valley.

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Questions

Who’s here?What do YOU want?

Dunning-Kruger

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

—Bertrand Russell, The Triumph of Stupidity

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

Ada Initiative

• Impostor Syndrome is the feeling that you aren't actually qualified for the work you are doing and will be discovered as a fraud.

• It is prevalent among women in open tech/culture, many of whom have been socialized to value other's opinion of their work above their own, and to do things "by the book." http://bit.ly/1dCpDBk

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Imposter Syndrome

• the higher the standards you like to set for yourself,

• the more you are used to being an expert• the more self critical and type-A you are naturally inclined to be,

• the higher the chance that you will experience this ‘Imposter Syndrome’

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Upside

Imposter Syndrome symptoms are a signpost that you’re moving in the right direction:

• into a new, expansive realm of possibility.

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Step one

Talk about the issue.

Denise Paolucci, Ada Initiative board member and Dreamwidth Studios co-founder "Overcoming Impostor Syndrome"Watch video: http://bit.ly/1gLxuwJ

Read transcript: http://bit.ly/1rNDg4i

Two

Watch your language. Some ideas are self-reinforcing.

Point three

Teach the things that you know. Even if you think you don't know them. Watch video: http://bit.ly/1gLxuwJ

Four

Question the corrections that other people give to you.

Number five

Ask questions.

Six

Ask for perspective checks from a friend.

Seven

List your accomplishments and own them.

Eight

Practice accepting compliments.

Nine

Get more background information for comparisons.

Ten

Remember that you are awesome. Really. I promise. (And others feel this way, too.) Watch video: http://bit.ly/1gLxuwJ

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