Understand your impostor feelings, identify your type, and build strategies to reclaim your confidence
Rate how true each statement feels for you. There are no right or wrong answers -- be honest with yourself. Inspired by the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale.
Dr. Valerie Young identified five competence types that drive impostor feelings. Most people relate to one or two primary types. Tap each to explore and mark the ones that resonate with you.
Enter an impostor thought that has been bothering you. We will help you see it from different angles.
Your impostor brain discounts evidence of competence. Let's build an evidence file it cannot argue with. List 10 concrete achievements, no matter how small they seem.
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We are often far crueler to ourselves than we would ever be to someone we care about.
Impostors attribute success to external factors (luck, timing, help) and failure to internal ones (ability, intelligence). Let's retrain your attributions.
Track your impostor feelings over time. Awareness is the first step to change.
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