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Jun 2024
1h 9m

Overthinking About Imposter Syndrome

Amanda Montell & Studio71
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In 1978, psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes published the first study on imposter syndrome—originally termed “imposter phenomenon”—about high-achieving women feeling like frauds at work… and it struck a major nerve. The study kicked off decades of frenzied discourse, programs, and merch aimed at curing women of this irrational feminine diseas ... Show More
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