Many young adults who do feel like impostors they grow up in families that place a big emphasis on achievement. Parents will send out very mixed messages about success so alternating between overprays of their kids are you're amazing and then criticism can increase the risk of future fraudulent feelings. Family messages about the importance of being naturally intelligent can really influence ambitions and expectations from an early age.
On this weeks episode we discuss imposter syndrome; where it comes from, why we feel it and why society wants to convince women it’s a gendered problem.
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