***Continued from Chapter 01 (Covered previously: Meaning, Characterestics, Apparance and Manifestation) Link to Chapter -01 Root Causes — And Potential Solutions Regardless of how or why people may feel like an impostor occasionally, this syndrome is all about the stories that we tell ourselves . We step out with an idea, then when someone says “no,” we retreat and the cycle repeats. The stories may not be true anymore, but they become a habit. It may happen in school and then in meetings at work. Our ideas get shut down as someone says, “I’ve been here 11 years and that won’t work.” We develop complex coping mechanisms around these stories and deepen the groove in our brain of the thoughts and behaviours, making it very difficult to break the mental connections we’ve made – or to step into our brilliance, whatever it may be. Measuring Impostor Syndrome The first scale designated to measure characteristics of impostor syndrome phenomenon came in 1985, called the Clance impos
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