Understanding and Escaping Impostor Syndrome
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The document discusses impostor syndrome, which is an internal experience of feeling like a fraud. It provides statistics from a survey that found many people in UX fields feel like impostors at least sometimes. Examples of thoughts people experience are provided, such as worrying that their skills are not as good as others think or that praise is just people being nice. The document concludes with quotes meant to make people feel better about experiencing impostor syndrome.
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Understanding and Escaping Impostor Syndrome
- 1. #ImpSyn “We’re Not Worthy”:! Understanding & Escaping! Impostor Syndrome Lori Widelitz-Cavallucci Amy Silvers ! IA Summit 2014
- 4. #ImpSyn “I feel like that every day.”!
- 5. #ImpSyn “(T)hese women find innumerable means of negating any external evidence that contradicts their belief that they are, in reality, unintelligent.”! ! —Clance & Imes, from their 1978 study
- 6. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “Impostor Phenomenon designates an internal experience of intellectual phoniness.”
- 7. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “I’m not as capable as people think I am.”! !
- 8. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Any praise and recognition leads to discounting the success.
- 9. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “My success is due to luck and nothing else.”!
- 13. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “She only got ahead because she's hot and her boss wanted to do her.”
- 17. #ImpSyn Totally Scientific Survey Conclusion: ! A lot of people in UX-related fields feel like impostors.* ! ! *At least sometimes.
- 18. #ImpSyn
- 20. #ImpSyn “I often feel like I'm just making it up as I go along, so worry that I'm not ‘good enough’ to compete with those who've spent more time in teams and have worked with official job titles and the recognition it brings.”
- 21. #ImpSyn “I feel more below the mark more with other designers outside of work. I guess I feel that there's so much praise for a certain type of designer, one that is a consultant, works at certain agencies, and/or writes books and blogs.”
- 23. #ImpSyn “I feel constrained, like I'll never be able to be a "real UXer" -- I don't have ecommerce or product experiences, so how do I know that my skills are really as good as I think they are?”
- 24. #ImpSyn “Sometimes, I feel like my career is an exercise in ice skating up hill: there are constantly new skills to learn, new lessons to learn, new tools to master, and there is a lot of pressure to be good at a lot of things.”
- 26. #ImpSyn “It's a sort of continuous feeling that my education and experience aren't good enough, that I don't actually know anything more than anyone else does, and that by writing or giving talks or workshops that I'm just a fraud. And, of course, everyone will realize it soon, or they're just being too nice to point out that I don't know what I'm talking about.”
- 27. #ImpSyn 48# 51# 46.5% 47% 47.5% 48% 48.5% 49% 49.5% 50% 50.5% 51% 51.5% Yes# No# When#people#compliment#you#on#your#ability#or# performance,#do#you#ever#think#they’re#“just# being#nice”?#
- 28. #ImpSyn “I don't think I am as talented as people tell me I am. I constantly doubt myself. Every year at my yearly review, I'm told I'm doing great when I think I'm doing just ok. You would think I would gain confidence and learn from this but I still constantly doubt myself.”
- 29. #ImpSyn “I know that I'm not, but I spend most of my professional life feeling like a complete fraud.”
- 31. #ImpSyn
- 32. #ImpSyn
- 33. #ImpSyn “There are no information architects. There are no interaction designers. There are only, and only ever have been, user experience designers.”
- 34. #ImpSyn “All this talk about being a unicorn I think contributes to a feeling of inadequacy for people who aren't.”
- 35. #ImpSyn
- 36. #ImpSyn “There's always something new to learn that pulls you out of your comfort zone and makes you feel uneasy, but to me that's the fun of it.”
- 37. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn What's the worst thing that can happen?
- 38. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Don't equate expertise with infallibility. We can be both.
- 39. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn We only see what others want us to see, including insecurities and fears.
- 40. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Behaviors = changeable ! Attributes not changeable
- 44. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Stay humble! ! ! Be brave!
- 45. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn We are all in this together.! ! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
- 46. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn –Irene Au “Put one foot forward at a time. Tune in, listen, be in the moment.”
- 47. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn –Pamela Druckerman “Everyone is winging it. Some just do it more confidently.”