Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 8801. Now in today's episode,

we're talking about the subject of imposter syndrome, but with a bit of a different twist

than usual, because a lot of a time we think about our imposter syndrome as if it's a lonely journey, we experience it, very isolating, we feel stuck and we don't know what to do.

And I want us to have a thought process around the varying ranges of imposter syndrome.

When you think about it, what is the purpose of imposter syndrome. When you think about it, what is the purpose of imposter syndrome?

And if you don't know what imposter syndrome is, I want you to think about it as being found out,

feeling as if you're in your career, in your job, in your business, even in your relationship, and you fear you're

going to be found out for being like a fraud or found out that you weren't capable to fulfill

that or to be that partner or to go up into your career.

You just kind of feel like you haven't got the qualities or the abilities. Even if you know

them logically, there's a part of you on the inside that feels like it's going to be found out.

So that is what hypnosis, that is what imposter syndrome is. And there's going to be varying levels so absolutely protection

is the main one right we want to make sure we're safe we want to make sure that we don't get found

out or we don't push ourselves in a situation where we may fail or we may fear what people think of us and

that's why we tend to play small. But another variation of imposter syndrome is like think of this

as a secondary which I don't really talk about too often, which is keeping you in check.

Like, if you were just so, so confident in an overcompetent way,

or would it be overcompetent, but overconfident or egotistical way,

you might go and do things where gets you into trouble.

If you're super, super confident without the skill set or the ability,

you'll just make mistakes.

Your will have bad relationships.

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