Anne Morris

It is more common in women.

It's more common among people who are bringing difference into the workplace.

Xs in room full of Ys, you're more likely to see these kinds of questions.

Should I be here?

Do I deserve to be here?

Are people going to find out that I shouldn't, essentially?

Yeah, I do think these experiences are most clearly understood as distortions.

And what's a distortion?

It's a story we're telling ourselves about what's happening that diverges from reality.

All right, so let's break it down.

So that's the opposite cognitive distortion.

I'm overestimating my abilities in some way.

Why do you find this so helpful when you are working with people on imposter syndrome?

Got it.

And so we see that it's actually a choice, that it is actually a distortion when we kind of look at it through the mirror or whatever the right metaphor is here.

Okay.

Well, let's focus on the 80%.

If that's the 80-20, we're going to care about the 80% of us who've experienced imposter syndrome.

How do I know if I am subject to this distortion field?

So let's talk to the 80% of people who have experienced this at some point in their lives.