Are you're experiencing the imposter syndrome?

Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, Spartan Mind, your Chief Mindock, part of the Spartan Up Podcast family. I'm here every

Wednesday. Working with that mind of yours to get it clear so that you can be a better human being and feel a little bit less

stuck. Today we're talking about imposter syndrome. Now we all experience

imposter syndrome at any given time, right?

Some of us experience it more than others, some of us just a little bit,

but we all experience it.

And in case you don't know what it is, imposter syndrome is sort of a pervasive way of thinking

of yourself as a fraud and discounting your qualifications.

So the best example that I can give is you're on that starting line of a Spartan race and you're looking around thinking

I don't deserve to be here like who are all these amazing people I just run I don't know that I deserve to be here that's

imposter syndrome right or if you're sitting in a boardroom with a bunch of

people at a business meeting and you're saying to yourself all of these people are so smart and

I don't deserve to be here I don't know why they think that I should be here but I

shouldn't be here imposter syndrome right or let's say you're giving a talk somewhere and you look out

under that crowd and you say to yourself, I have no idea why they hired me, I don't

deserve to be here, this is crazyoster syndrome it shows up everywhere even in like

little tiny moments right as a mother sometimes certainly I feel like an

imposter mom I'm like I don't know that I even deserve like the recognition as a mother,

sometimes I feel like I'm a complete failure and a fraud in this position, like we all go through it.

But imposter syndrome obviously is just not super helpful, especially if we can begin to believe

the things that the imposter syndrome is telling us, right?

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