"We're Not Worthy": Understanding & Escaping Impostor Syndrome
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"We're Not Worthy": Understanding & Escaping Impostor Syndrome
- 1. #ImpSyn “We’re Not Worthy”:! Understanding & Escaping! Impostor Syndrome Lori Widelitz-Cavallucci Amy Silvers ! IA Summit 2014 #ImpSyn
- 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.
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- 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.”
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- 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.”
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- 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.”