I’ve been wondering for a while now whether an increase in self-awareness opens the door to imposter syndrome. After all, the age-old advice to “know thyself” sounds like the key to wisdom, but it comes with a catch. As Socrates famously put it, the more we know, the more we realise how little we know. And that, I can’t help but think, might just be the root of imposter syndrome….. The uncomfortable sense that the better we understand ourselves, the more exposed our gaps and shortcomings seem to be.
Join me in reflecting on my conversations with Adrian Ashton, Aoife O’Brien, Melanie Wilkey and others. Looking forward to joining you on your learning journey!
I was lucky enough to be joined by Adrian Ashton on my podcast. Adrian has written a book about impostor syndrome called ‘Loving your doubt: Why everything we think we understand and know about Imposter Syndrome is (probably) wrong’. We talked about the flaws in the imposter syndrome research – originally called imposter phenomenon.
When you hear Adrian talk about imposter phenomenon and the research that’s been done it really makes you ask some big questions about the concept. And this really is what got me thinking about whether imposter phenomenon or imposter syndrome is really about an increasing awareness of how much we don’t….
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