Reshma Saujani

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The Tamsen Show · Reshma Saujani: Imposter Syndrome Is a Lie - Here’s the Truth · 9 Apr 2025 podcast

But I was like, I'm going to take 20 girls and I'm going to put them in a classroom and I'm going to teach them how to code. I'm not going to build a movement. I'm not going to build a non-profit. I'm going to do a little pilot. And I'm going to tell everybody about it.

Also meine Vorschläge, wenn du dich als Impostor fühlst oder Angst hast, zu verlieren, ist, einen Schritt zu identifizieren, der machbar ist. Und dann alle darüber zu erzählen. Weil ich denke, das ist das Wichtigste für uns als Frauen. Es ist wichtig für uns, andere Leute zu halten, andere Leute zu halten, die uns verantwortlich halten.

So when you start talking, and then you will also find people who will want to help you.

I love that advice, because I think that sometimes what we do is think we can't tell people anything until we're successful. Until it's perfect. We hide our dreams.

Because we assume that there isn't a community there that wants to hold us and help us actually achieve those dreams, make those introductions. Write a $200 check for your investment. Do that thing. I think the second thing I would say to her too is that, I told you, imposter syndrome is a lie. It is a trick to make you feel that you are not good enough.

So imagine any other thing in your life where you feel like you have been told something that was there to actually impede your progress and your growth.

This is that thing. So what do you do with it, though, when it comes into your mind, like, oh, I'm not good enough, it's not quick enough, it's not... I do think starting in that small way and not trying to be up here and telling people is brilliant.

I think it's a smart way to do that. It's normal to feel scared. To leave something that you've done for so long and to do something new is scary. I feel scared every single time I launch a new thing. I'm sure you do too.

I called you telling you I was. I said, I have this idea, but I don't know what to do. I don't know what it is. Is it something? Of course.

But so that feeling of feeling scared is normal. Okay. But then what I think you want to divorce that from is this feeling that you are not good enough to go do that thing, that you are an imposter.

And it's okay if you're the only one, too. That doesn't make you an imposter.

Okay, if you're the only one.

I think that's a big deal. So recognizing it, normalizing it, and realizing that we've been tricked into believing that we're not supposed to be there. We're not that girl.

It will go away.

I like when you talk about bravery over perfection, because that's, I think, what you're talking about at the very beginning, starting at small, not trying to make a movement, not trying to perfect it before you go out there with it. I think bravery is something I've realized now in midlife that I have, that I didn't know I probably had when I was younger.

I thought that I was just working, you know, my head was down, like I was head down, working really hard. Now I feel I can see some of those brave moments. Und ich gebe mir einen Schlauch in die Rückseite, anstatt es alles sofort herauszufinden.

Braverie ist lustig. Ich sage immer, ich möchte nicht alles jetzt. Aber auch ich bekomme ein Hoch aus dem Verletzen. Ich weiß, das klingt seltsam. Aber ich genieße eigentlich Rejection. Und hier ist die Sache, du lernst nicht, wenn du nicht fällst.

Und wenn du einen Athleten anschaust, wenn du jemanden anschaust, der in einem kompetitiven Sport ist, ist es das, Schuss, ich verliere, Schuss, ich verliere, Schuss, ich verliere, Schuss, ich verliere, ist, wie du wirklich groß wirst. And if I'm going to have one lifetime to make the world a better place, I want to be fucking great at it.

But that means I have got to make mistakes and I have got to fail and I have to put myself out there and I have to put myself in uncomfortable positions. So I think we have to build the muscle of doing that. It is uncomfortable to ask somebody for help. Uncomfortable to say, hey, Tamsa, will you introduce me to so-and-so? Es ist.

Und ich habe gesagt, können wir nur einen Moment reden? Ich habe diese Idee. Und es war eine der wenigen Zeiten, wo ich dachte, oh, das war so gut erhältlich. Aber es ist, warum ist das?

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