It's funny, because a lot of the descriptions of impostor syndrome, just sound like a fixed mindset.
If you haven't already, read Mindset, by Dr. Carol Dweck, I've mentioned her a few times recently. She basically reveals the difference between a growth and fixed mindset.
The two points of view, come down to the language used on an individual in childhood. So if you had your ability praised, you become fixed in that praise, scared of failure, always questioning, and therefore always trying to prove your worth.
If however you have had effort praised, then failure is a challenge to be welcomed, an opportunity to learn.
Of course it's not just in childhood these things affect us, quite simply, you need to focus on the effort you're putting into these articles. You know you are doing that, I and others can see that, and that is what matters. Your effort.
Keep growing, keep strong, as you say, always strive to deliver, and most importantly, focus on the process, not the event.
Oh, and read Mindset, it really is eye-opening :-)
AWESOME COMMENT.
I'm getting that book ASAP
I hope you do! :-D
It will change the way you look at things, it will also make you look back on some of your early childhood memories, and say; aha! I get it now!! :-)
Cg
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD?!?!
:))
Lolz; only what you have written in the past, so very little. What I do know, is that everyone who reads this book ends up by saying at some point; aha! Now I get it!
:-)
Cryptogee