The Waves: How To Make Imposter Syndrome Your Superpower

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This week on The Waves, a special episode from Slate's podcast How To! 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. If you liked this episode, check out: “I’m Great at My Job. So Why Do I Feel Like a Fraud?” Podcast production by Derek John, Rosemary Belson, Kevin Bendis, and Jabari Butler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey waves listeners, we have a special treat for you this week.
0:06.2	We're handing over our feed to the slate podcast How To.
0:09.5	They recently did this really great episode on Imposter Syndrome that we think you'll
0:12.9	love.
0:13.9	How To host Amanda Ripley talks with Dr. Jessica Esquivel about how to stop worrying about
0:18.8	being enough and start shedding your imposter syndrome.
0:22.9	Enjoy!
0:29.1	We are physicists.
0:31.3	We study the smallest particles in the universe at the smallest scales, as well as the biggest
0:40.2	things in the universe at the largest scales.
0:43.0	But you're telling me you can't figure out how to come up with some measurements or performance
0:48.5	indicators on how this new strategic plan on changing the culture of an organization is
0:54.8	doing.
0:58.3	Welcome to How To.
0:59.3	I'm Amanda Ripley.
1:01.9	Imposter Syndrome is a term that's thrown around a lot these days.
1:05.8	But it actually dates way back to the late 70s, when two psychologists noticed that high
1:11.0	achieving women were not internalizing their accomplishments.
1:15.4	Even when they had done a lot of amazing things, they seemed to be plagued by this persistent
1:21.2	self-doubt and fear of being exposed as a fraud.
1:26.4	And since then, researchers have found imposter syndrome to be all over the place, up to 80%
1:31.9	of people experience it, depending on how you define it.
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