{"id":7265,"date":"2013-10-25T17:49:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=7265"},"modified":"2013-10-26T18:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T18:54:52","slug":"merely-a-matter-of-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/25\/merely-a-matter-of-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"a matter of luck\/story of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt&#8217;s sort of surprising to me that even when you get to the top, you still don&#8217;t realize you&#8217;ve made it there,\u201d Anderson says. Or that you still don\u2019t think you deserve to be there, believing you somehow faked your way to success and that you\u2019ll be found out at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>The name for that fraudulent feeling is impostor syndrome. It\u2019s a phenomenon in which people\u2014usually high-achieving professionals\u2014don\u2019t consider themselves qualified for their position and convince themselves that they&#8217;ve cheated their way into it. It doesn\u2019t matter how much work they\u2019ve put in or how much experience they\u2019ve acquired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impostor syndrome describes the countless millions of people who do not experience an inner sense of competence or success,\u201d writes Valerie Young, author of <i>The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women<\/i>. \u201cDespite often overwhelming evidence of their abilities, impostors dismiss them as merely a matter of luck, timing, outside help, charm\u2014even computer error. Because people who have the impostor syndrome feel that they\u2019ve somehow managed to slip through the system undetected, in their mind it\u2019s just a matter of time before they\u2019re found out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i also call this the &#8220;feel like a shoplifter even though you have never shoplifted&#8221; syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/business-economics\/qualified-job-wait-probably-imposter-syndrome-psychology-68700\/\" target=\"_blank\">pacific standard\/ann friendman<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s sort of surprising to me that even when you get to the top, you still don&#8217;t realize you&#8217;ve made it there,\u201d Anderson says. Or that you still don\u2019t think you deserve to be there, believing you somehow faked your way to success and that you\u2019ll be found out at any moment. The name for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7277,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7265\/revisions\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}