Episode 185: All About Impostor Syndrome
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Today we are tackling a single subject. Something that has been requested numerous times by you guys. That subject is impostor syndrome. In this episode, I will talk about what it is, why we tend to have it, and hopefully give you some tips that can make it impact you less. It's been a stressful week, so before we dive in I invite you to take a few breaths with me to help center ourselves.
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| 0:00.0 | And this points out one of the really, really important aspects of imposter syndrome. |
| 0:04.5 | It isn't actually tied to what you've accomplished in your life or in your career, |
| 0:08.4 | or whatever sphere we're talking about here, school, etc. It's not actually tied to what you've accomplished. All these people |
| 0:16.1 | are at the pinnacle of their fields, right? There's all these people that I give examples of earlier. |
| 0:20.5 | They're at the pinnacle of their fields. They're really high up there and if they can still feel |
| 0:24.9 | in posture syndrome then clearly there isn't some sort of task or hurdle that you can cross, |
| 0:30.8 | something that you can achieve to make it go away. |
| 0:33.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:37.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:41.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:43.7 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect |
| 0:49.0 | and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:51.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, |
| 0:56.0 | but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip that's okay, |
| 1:01.0 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am |
| 1:05.2 | a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist this is not intended to be |
| 1:10.0 | direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for |
| 1:13.1 | professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:33.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 185. |
| 1:38.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Death The Psych. |
| 1:41.0 | I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have actually a deep dive episode |
| 1:47.1 | Haven't done one of these in a while this is when I take a single subject and go a little bit deeper into it instead of taking three questions or interviewing guests, we just focus on one thing. |
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