The Natural Genius Imposter In the fourth post in this series looking at the different types of Imposter Syndrome as identified by Dr Valerie Young we will be looking at the Natural Genius, the fear isn’t about being wrong, it’s about struggling at all. This type believes that competence should come easily. And when it […]
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The Soloist Imposter This is the third post in the series looking at the one of the five patterns of Imposter Syndrome identified by Dr. Valerie Young. In the previous two posts we looked at the Perfectionist Imposter, and then the Expert Imposter. For others, imposter syndrome isn’t about being perfect or knowing everything, it’s
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Imposter syndrome doesn’t show up in the same way for everyone. For some it shows up through perfectionism and in my previous blogpost I wrote about the Perfectionist Imposter (click here to read). For others it can show up as expertise and the belief that you should always know more, have all the answers, and
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