Anne Morris

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.

How do I know if I am distorting my reality in this way?

What are some clues that I might be

experiencing the symptoms of imposter syndrome?

Yeah, I mean, I think the clues are in the definition.

So if you are regularly experiencing self-doubt, if there's a storyline that pops into your head in the form of anxiety about being found out, if you are attributing...

your success, you know, entirely to factors that are outside of your control.

I think these are clues that you might be subject to this kind of a distortion field.