How to Reframe Imposter Syndrome
"Imposter syndrome is insidious because it makes us feel inferior. It makes us feel like we don’t belong, and it makes us feel like we’re not the ultimate expert on the entire earth in our subject matter. But really, we don’t’ have to be that. We are just a little ahead of other people who we are trying to help achieve a goal. We’re all just a little bit ahead of somebody else. But if anybody’s behind you, you can help them. You can clearly help your students and they’ve acknowledged that you can do that. Try to change it to where you’re saying, “Hey, I need all the answers,” to, “Wait a minute. I just have to help that person find the answer they need. If I can do that, I’m expert enough. I’m worthy of being able to do this because I’m just their guide. I’m just their mentor. I’m not the know it all that knows everything. I’m not Oz behind the curtain.” - Shane Sams
How to deal with Imposter syndrome:
1. Realize that everybody deals with it
2. Allow your experience—all of it—to count
3. Be restlessly helpful, and only be stumped once
Verse of the day: "But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.” - Psalms 5:11 (KJV)
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