Finding YOU Through Imposter Syndrome, by Megan Nervi, Psy.D. | Morris Psychological Group

Imposter syndrome, or as Dr. Pauline Rose Clance refers to it, Imposter Phenomenon, is an experience of feeling like one’s successes are due to luck and not the result of their abilities. They often feel that any successes they have had cannot be repeated and that, at some point, they will be exposed as a fraud or imposter.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory or defeat.”