class straddlers &
impostor syndrome:
a special Coaching service
A person who feels - quite wrongly - as an impostor is someone who thinks that they are "faking it". They regard their own successes as pure coincidence and not as their own merit.
The feeling prevails that they're actually only pretending to be someone in particular: an engineer, for example. Or a teacher. An executive. A scientist or a shopkeeper. A political activist, a care manager, a writer. Since that can't actually be true, can it? And the diploma on the wall isn't real either, is it?
Quite a few class straddlers might be familiar with this line of thinking. Here's a small list of topics and issues that can come up when dealing with an impostor syndrome:
- the worry of being "exposed" through somehow inappropriate behavior, mistakes in spoken or written language, or when being caught with an "educational gap"
- chronic fear of failure or success or both
- lack of confidence in oneself
- perfectionism, procrastinating and overworking out of fear of making mistakes or not being good enough
- not believing in your own competencies
- belittling your accomplishments or having the feeling of them being somehow unreal
- not stepping into your own light for the fear of standing out ("So you think you're better than us?")
- living with strict critical voices in your head
If you're curious, we can also work on this topic.