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How to overcome feeling like an impostor, with Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Kevin Cokley, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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Is Perfectionism Related to Impostorism?

iperfection ism, can be both adaptive and mal adaptive. And it's the mal adaptive forms of perfectionism that will result in a sort of impo feeling of impostorism being particularly harmful. If i can't do it perfectly, i'm not going to do it at all, am because then it will expose me. I think you can see both the over achievement and you can see under achievement. Sometimes they're in different domains or in other areas. But i think it's such an important piece around the perfectionism and how it does underlie it can make you a great success, and it can make great failure. It sounds like you both have techniques for for

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