Imposter Syndrome - Is Perfectionism Consistent With Perfectionism?

There's a real difficulty internalizing their successes and accepting praise as valid. Perfectionists will often set these excessively high unrealistic goals but then experience self-deceiving thoughts when they can't reach those goals because they're so beyond their limits. Even if an individual is competent, smart and highly accomplished having a maladaptive perfectionist tendencies can contribute to this feeling.