Fight Imposter Syndrome

There’s an insidious virus infecting the American workplace and it doesn’t start with a C and end with 19. It’s called imposter syndrome, which generally is defined as the unconscious belief that we aren’t as intelligent, capable or competent as people think we are — yet we somehow manage to fool people into thinking otherwise.“We even do it in the face of concrete evidence to the contrary about our abilities,” says Valerie Young, a nationally recognized speaker and expert on the subject and co-founder of the Imposter Syndrome Institute. “People with imposter syndrome chalk up their accomplishments to things like luck,