CBT

What's one learnable mental skill that will help you succeed at work, rock it at life, and ward off diseases?

What's one learnable mental skill that will help you succeed at work, rock it at life, and ward off diseases?

Before I give you the answer, perhaps think through this scenario to see if you can come up with an answer.

Let's say we have a sales person whose job is to do a bunch of cold calls to try to get clients. Their sales skills is quite high, they are quite intelligence and personable, and they are motivated to get the commission.

What is an additional mental skill they may need to ensure they are successful in getting their clients?

There are probably a few answers, but the one I'm focusing on today is…

When you feel like a fraud: The Imposter Syndrome

WHAT IS THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME?

First things first; if you're a nerd like me who wants to look this up in the scientific journals, they don't call it "Imposter Syndrome," they actually call it the "Imposter Phenomenon" (which led to my initial struggle in finding relevant papers on this topic in the scientific literature, despite it being soooo popular in general media.) But it has also been called the "fraud syndrome," "perceived fraudulence," and "imposter experience.")

One surprising thing that came from my high-level review of the psychological literature on this topic is that currently, researchers DO NOT AGREE on what this concept means.

This was surprising to me because it seems to be all over the internet and mentioned a lot in the vernacular, so I thought the state of the science was further along!

The main issue is whether it's ONE core thing (unidimensional) or MULTIPLE-THINGS (multidimensional) bundled together. So, I don't find it possible to give you a one-sentence definition of this, but more productive to outline what the researchers have been listing as part of this phenomenon.