How To Make Imposter Syndrome Your Superpower
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When Leslie landed her dream engineering job right out of college, she was elated but also worried she was a tad unqualified—even though she has the skills and expertise. Since then imposter syndrome has reared its ugly head on a regular basis. Besides being the youngest in her department, she's one of the only women and the only person of color, which has made things even more isolating. On this episode of How To!, host Amanda Ripley brings on Dr. Jessica Esquivel, physicist, advocate for marginalized communities in STEAM, and author of Our Queer Universe. Dr. Esquivel has some wise, hard-earned advice for shifting the burden of being enough, learning to fail, and making systemic changes so people don't feel imposter syndrome so acutely.
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| 1:58.0 | Imposter syndrome is a term that's thrown around a lot these days. |
| 2:02.2 | But it actually dates way back to the late 70s when two psychologists noticed that high achieving women were not internalizing their accomplishments. |
| 2:11.8 | Even when they had done a lot of amazing things, they seemed to be plagued by this persistent self doubt and fear of being exposed as a fraud. |
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