Sometimes a person has stable goals and systematically achieves them.
Anastasia Kamaletdinova, a psychologist, told what to do if you have impostor syndrome.
Step by step or all at once, he realizes what he wants, receives recognition and respect for his successes – from colleagues, his inner circle, and even from a larger audience.
However, along with this comes a feeling of undeserved attention to his victories, deception, fear of losing everything and being found to be inadequate to expectations. This is how impostor syndrome manifests itself.
Imposter syndrome is a phenomenon when an individual cannot evaluate his own successes as a result of his efforts and applied abilities. The person does not recognize that he has certain traits that help him achieve his goals.
He feels like a pretender, it seems to him that those around him mistakenly see him as a talented, competent professional, a specialist, and this whole image will certainly be destroyed, and luck will turn away.
The main manifestations of impostor syndrome
Devaluation. Complete or partial denial of one's competence. A person reduces all his achievements to zero. He cannot recognize and accept for himself the positive result of his work. He believes that his success is actually absolutely simple and does not deserve high praise, special attention to himself.
Luck. Justifies one's achievements through chance or a combination of external factors, rather than as a result of one's own efforts. The person believes that he was in the right place at the right time, which is what caused the victory.
All factors (the position of the stars, signs, observance of everyday rituals) have come together fatefully. And he is afraid that luck will pass.
Great responsibility. Provokes a bundle of fears: failure and subsequent success. Even having reached great heights, a person is unable to accept this fact. This increases anxiety, a feeling that he is in the wrong place, that he is occupying someone else's position, because of this there is a fear that he will soon be exposed.
The individual feels like a deceiver in front of others and is afraid that he will be exposed, will disappoint everyone in the future, will lose what he has achieved, including respect. His competencies will not be enough to maintain the image of a successful person.
In short, the emergence of impostor syndrome can be described by the following diagram: anxiety about implementation – a feeling of relief for the work done – a positive reaction from others.
At the last stage, uncertainty and disbelief that he deserves praise, considering himself a mediocre lucky person, kicks in. And so the cycle repeats itself with each new success.
