How to Stop Feeling Like an Impostor, With Psychologist Dr. Jessamy Hibberd (RECAST)
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
Lifehacker
4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re talking about impostor syndrome—the psychological phenomenon wherein people question their successes and have an internalized fear of being discovered as a fraud. We’ll hear from Lifehacker’s staff writer, Nick Douglas, who explains why he keeps something called a “brag file.” We’ll also chat with clinical psychologist Dr. Jessamy Hibberd, author of the book The Impostor Cure. And our producer takes to the streets to find out how people deal with their own feelings of inadequacy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch, |
| 0:21.6 | editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker's deputy editor. And today we're |
| 0:26.5 | talking about Imposter Syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the psychological phenomenon wherein people |
| 0:32.6 | question their successes and have an internalized fear of being discovered as a fraud. Melissa? Yes, Alice. |
| 0:39.2 | Have you ever felt like a phony, a fraud, a sham, a charlatan, a pretender, a quack, a faky fakerson? |
| 0:44.1 | A fraud and a quack, but never a charlatan and never a faky fakerson. Really? I feel like a |
| 0:49.1 | fake that. That's my name is faky fakerson. That's why I just I've, Yeah. Yeah, I've never felt like a quack, though, because isn't that, don't you need to, like, |
| 0:55.1 | have a pretend to have a medical license? |
| 0:56.9 | I guess so. |
| 0:58.7 | Well, we know what you've been doing. |
| 1:00.6 | I mean, I only feel like a quack when I'm performing surgery. |
| 1:04.2 | No, but honestly, I have felt at times in my life, like, someone's going to, like, I'm going to get that tap on the shoulder and someone's going to say, come with me. You're in the wrong place. Do you feel that at work at lifehacker.com? |
| 1:14.7 | Yes, every day. Well, but wait, I'm waiting for you to tell me I belong here. |
| 1:19.1 | No one's going to tell you you belong, Alice. You can't wait for an invitation. God damn it. Yeah, I think everybody suffers from a bit of imposter syndrome. And certainly the more successful you get or the more good things that happen to you, |
| 1:30.2 | the more, you know, you start to feel paranoid that you're going to be found out |
| 1:34.8 | or that these things are going to be taken away from you, right? |
| 1:37.4 | And if you don't realize you're suffering from imposter syndrome, |
| 1:40.2 | you probably just think you're an imposter too. |
| 1:42.6 | Right. It's a syndrome. It's not reality. |
| 1:45.2 | It's not reality. So listen up and learn people. We're going to hear from LifeHackers staff |
| 1:51.2 | writer Nick Douglas, who shares his method of curbing imposter syndrome by using what he calls |
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