I'm Great at My Job. So Why Do I Feel Like a Fraud?

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

How To, Education

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

When Shellye Archambeau walked into her first meeting as a board member of Verizon, she felt a moment of panic. "Do I actually belong at this table?" she remembers thinking. Shellye, one of the first Black women to work as the CEO of a tech company in Silicon Valley, has struggled over the years with what's commonly known as "imposter syndrome"—the feeling that you are a phony, despite all evidence to the contrary. On this episode of How To!, Shellye, the author of Unapologetically Ambitious, gives advice to Hannah, a medical student who is struggling with the same feelings of self-doubt, particularly as she's about to treat patients for the first time. Can Shellye help Hannah tame her imposter syndrome so she can be an effective physician? "I can't tell people how to get over it," Shellye says. "But I can tell you how to deal with it."

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0:30.4	Most people at some point or other fail imposter syndrome, it's a little voice in your head that says,
0:38.6	what makes you think?
0:42.0	You can hold your own among all these other people around you.
0:47.9	It's the voice that tells you all the reasons why you are going to fail,
0:51.4	why you're not going to be successful and why you should be afraid that one day they're going to find you out, that you actually don't belong and it was a mistake.
0:56.8	Welcome to how to. I'm science writer David Epstein.
1:01.2	You ever start a new job and it feels like absolutely everyone has the right experience
1:05.6	except you? Or maybe you excitedly take on some ambitious new project only to turn around
1:10.8	right away and start wondering how you ever thought you could do this? Or maybe you excitedly take on some ambitious new project, only to turn around right away and start wondering how you ever thought you could do this.
1:13.6	Or maybe you showed up at an event,
1:15.6	realize that everyone else got the memo to wear fancy giant-face watches,
1:19.6	so in order to fit in, you ran right out and bought a cheap knockoff that didn't actually keep time.
1:24.6	Never happened to me.
1:26.6	Okay, that totally happened to me. All of those scenarios have,
1:30.8	and, you know, I'm probably not alone. Hi, my name is Hannah. I am a fourth year medical student,
1:39.6	and I'll be starting my residency this summer.
1:45.7	I'm pretty excited about it.
1:49.4	Hannah's about to become a practicing doctor,
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