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Yes, You Really Do Belong: Getting on Top of Impostor Syndrome

 

 

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Yes, You Really Do Belong:
Getting on Top of Impostor Syndrome

 

Does any of this sound familiar? You worry about meeting expectations and you credit “luck” for your accomplishments? What about feeling that other people are overestimating you, along with a secret fear that people will find out you’re not as capable as they think? If you have thoughts and feelings like that, you may be dealing with “impostor syndrome.” Also known as impostor phenomenon, it’s a nagging inner voice whispering that you don’t deserve your achievements — that you don’t really belong. It chimes in when people who are successful are unable to internalize their accomplishments and worry they’ll be unmasked as a fraud.

 

 

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Jayne Sandoval, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Jayne Sandoval is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with BS degrees in mechanical engineering and Asian comparative cultural studies. She is now studying for her MS in energy engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, through the Fulbright Program. Sandoval is from Ute Pass Valley, a rural location outside of Pinon, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation.

 

How does impostor syndrome develop? 

When a person overthinks their own qualities and begins to doubt themselves, impostor syndrome can set in. It happens when an individual is overwhelmed with where they are in life, but at the same time begins to doubt themself so much they begin to wonder if they are there by chance. I experience “impostor syndrome” when I’m faced with new challenges. I find myself doubting my success, and I tend to forget the work and research experiences that contributed to where I am today.

 

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