What is Imposter Syndrome?
12th Grade · Health · 45 min
Lesson Preview
Learning Objective
I can define imposter syndrome and identify strategies to navigate feelings of self-doubt and inadequacy.
- 1
Imposter syndrome is the feeling that you haven’t earned your accomplishments, or that your ideas and skills aren’t worthy of others’ attention.
- 2
Psychologist Pauline Rose Clance first studied imposterism and found pervasive feelings of fraudulence in female college students and faculty.
- 3
The most surefire way to combat imposter syndrome is to talk about it, and you can combat your own imposter syndrome by collecting and revisiting positive feedback.
