The Herd (ARC) by Andrea Bartz
Author:Andrea Bartz [Bartz, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000 Fiction / General
ISBN: 9781984826367
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine
Published: 2020-03-24T04:00:00+00:00
PART III
CHAPTER 13
PLEASE STOP SAYING YOU SUFFER
FROM IMPOSTOR SYNDROME
By Hana Bradley
Published to Gleam On April 10, 2019
Hi, Gleam Team! Hana hereâpublicist for Gleam and the Herd. In PR, Iâm lucky to work with ambitious, accomplished, hardworking people who inspire others ⦠much like yourselves! And youâd probably be shocked to hear that many of the women I work with come to me with a confession. They lean in and say it softly, like theyâre letting me in on an awful secret: I feel like a fraud. I have no idea what Iâm doing and Iâm not sure I deserve to be where I am. Thatâs right: These incredible, inspiring people are diagnosing themselves with Impostor Syndrome.
Itâs a term we hear a lot these days, and it seems to perfectly suit that secret, shameful feeling many of us experience. But itâs nothing new; Impostor Syndrome actually came from a scientific paper published by two female psychologists in 1978. They theorized, based on their own anecdotal research, that young women were vulnerable to âimpostor phenomenon,â or feeling like an âintellectual phony.â The researchers observed that, despite âoutstanding academic and professional accomplishments,â many women think theyâre really not too bright and that theyâve fooled anyone who thinks otherwise.
They published the study, and the news went ⦠nowhere. Thatâs because follow-up studies couldnât link impostor phenomenon with gender or, specifically, with high-achieving women. And in 1993, one of the original researchers retracted her theory, admitting that the âsyndromeâ theyâd originally identified actually applied toâwait for itâ80 percent of the population. Old, young, male, female, anything in-betweenâalmost all of us have these feelings.
And that shouldâve been the end of it: Whoops, sorry, #notathing. But no. The term took on a life of its ownâyouâve almost definitely heard a friend invoke it after nabbing a promotion, and maybe youâve used it yourself. I have a huge problem with this debunked pop psychology term: It implies that occasionally doubting yourself is a pathology, when really, itâs just a part of the human experience. (Uh, maybe we should be worrying about the weirdos who donât occasionally wonder if theyâre as great as others seem to think they are?)
Feeling like you donât know what the F youâre doing shouldnât trigger shame. It means youâre challenging yourselfâstretching, learning, and growing. And thatâs something to be proud of.
This article was adapted from Bradleyâs presentation at the Herd on April 9.
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