In a world that celebrates success stories and final achievements, it's easy to overlook the crucial journey that led to those victories. But here's a fundamental truth: every winner was once a beginner. At some point, they were standing at the starting line, unsure of their abilities, perhaps even struggling with self-doubt. The difference between those who succeed and those who don't is not raw talent but a belief in growth and the perseverance to develop their skills over time.
Read MoreDebbie has been lucky. Or so she thinks. How else can she explain her many successes and promotions at work? It certainly doesn’t have anything to her hard work and skill development, or the relationships that she’s carefully built over the years, does it?
Of course, it does. But you’d be shocked to learn how many Debbies are out there, ascribing their successes to good fortune and their failures to their self-perception of inadequacy. Each raise, promotion or accolade is accompanied by the dread that, one day, their cover will be blown, and everyone will find out that they’ve just been getting lucky time and again.
What Debbie and many others suffer from is an unhealthy dose of impostor syndrome. Impostor syndrome occurs when you believe your inner critic when it tells you that you’ve only succeeded due to luck, and not because of your talent or qualifications.
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