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The Impostor Syndrome - Do you feel like a fraud?

The answer to this question would be in the affirmative for most people at one or more instances in their life. But the focus of this report is mainly on those individuals who suffer from an extreme form of this syndrome and go through their lives perpetually feeling like a fake. The same factors, consequences and strategies to overcome the syndrome would be applicable to people suffering from the impostor syndrome to a lesser degree as well.

This phenomenon has been investigated scientifically only relatively recently, with studies beginning in the seventies, with findings that the people who suffered from this syndrome had significantly high levels of self-doubt and an inability to internalise their success (Clance & Imes, 1978). Some definitions of the impostor syndrome are:
“Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in face of information that indicates......

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