What To Do About Imposter Syndrome

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Management, Mental Health, Personal Development, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 269 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why do so many high achievers feel like frauds? In this episode, Brett and Joe explore a topic near and dear to the hearts of anyone who has ever thought they needed to be someone else to be loved: Imposter Syndrome. Together, they explore: - Our relationship to shame and self-worth - Antidotes to imposter syndrome - The childhood experiences that encourage imposter syndrome - Implications in leadership and business

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0:00.0	I remember one time I got a deal to go do a base jumping commercial in Switzerland,
0:06.0	except I'd literally never been to the place.
0:08.0	I literally didn't know anything about it.
0:10.0	And so when I showed up to organize the shoot,
0:13.0	I avoided contacting the people who were the most experienced and most skilled who could help me
0:19.0	because I would have felt like an imposter.
0:21.5	We are all impostors. In fact, if you're doing anything meaningful at all, if you're doing
0:26.9	anything that you don't know about completely, you're to some degree an imposter.
0:32.3	Looking back on it is just like, wow, what would have what it have been like if I just
0:35.8	showed up? And I was like, yep, I have literally never done this before.
0:38.7	I think there's something deeper going on with imposter syndrome.
0:45.9	This time on the art of accomplishment, we are talking about the imposter syndrome
0:49.9	and how all of us are impostors and why that's not a problem.
0:54.6	We're going to talk about what to do about that and how you can find the confidence in simply knowing and being yourself.
1:03.4	So we're at like 140-something episodes now after five years.
1:07.9	Oh, wow.
1:12.0	Is that true? Yeah, yeah, it's just over five years. Oh, wow. Is that true?
1:13.4	Yeah.
1:13.7	Yeah, it's just over five years.
1:15.0	We started in like May 2020.
1:18.6	Wow.
1:19.1	Yeah.
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