Episode Details

Do you feel like you should not be in the room? I had imposter syndrome for years without a name for it, and hearing that Richard Branson has it too undid most of it.

When I sit with other councillors and other mayors, the voice says I am not intelligent enough to be there. Then there is the opposite, the Dunning Kruger side, where you know a little and overestimate wildly. I have done both, plenty of times. Anybody genuine has the self doubt. The difference is whether you say it out loud to somebody.

One thing to try: Tell one person the self doubt. Not to be fixed. Just to have said it to somebody.

In this episode

• (0:03) Imposter syndrome, and overcoming it almost instantly
• (2:28) Dunning Kruger, and how it sits alongside it
• (4:41) Sitting with other councillors and other mayors
• (6:31) Hearing that Richard Branson has the same fear
• (9:12) Overestimating yourself when you are the expert
• (13:12) Being totally dismissive of it in my twenties
• (17:36) Knowing what really goes on in my own head
• (21:47) Share it. Not to be fixed, just to be heard

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