How To Overcome Imposter Syndrome
If so, you’re in good company. In this video from Ted-Ed, narrator Elizabeth Cox explains how feeling like a fraud is a phenomenon that plagues many successful people. She points to writer Maya Angelou and physicist Albert Einstein, both of whom believed they didn’t deserve the attention their work received. “Accomplishments at the level of Angelou’s or Einstein’s are rare, but their feeling of fraudulence is extremely common,” Cox says. This unwarranted sense of insecurity is known as imposter syndrome....