Anne Morris

You are listening to Fixable, a podcast from TED.

I'm your host, Anne Morris.

I'm a company builder and leadership coach.

Thank you so much for having me.

We got so much out of that conversation and we think you will too.

So definitely check it out.

Frances, today it is just the two of us, and we're going to go deep on an aspect of confidence that we see trip a lot of people up, which is the phenomenon known as imposter syndrome.

All right, Frances, this is how I propose we do this.

I want to spend some time on what imposter syndrome is because it's a phrase that people throw around all the time, and I think it's going to help us fix it to have a better understanding of what it is.

And I want to fix it because this is fixable.

And then I want us to talk about some of the cousins and variants of imposter syndrome because it's going to help us spot it in ourselves and in other people.

How does that sound?

Yeah, that's what we're going to get into today.

We're going to talk about imposter syndrome and also some of its close cousins, including the perfectionist.

All right, friends, we've got a lot to do today, so let's get right into it.

Francis, just to get us started here, why is this a question that we care about?

Why spend time on this one?

Oh, because it affects so many of us and it's fixable.

Totally.

I saw some data when we were prepping for this show, credible data that said up to 80% of people experience imposter syndrome at some point in their life.