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Imposter syndrome

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Happy March, Sustain Friends ✌️

Before we get into it – I’m jumping onto Instagram. I made it a 2024 goal to start an Instagram page for this work and now that it’s March I figured I should do that 😂 I will post a reel every week over at @GrantIsOffline. Give a follow if you like 👏

I was chatting with a junior colleague I mentored at a previous job. It was during a particularly difficult stretch at that job. The culture was struggling. The executives were doing more managing and less leading. That was trickling down to all managers.

This made it difficult to do great work.

It was as easy to feel confident as it would be to reach into the ocean and grab a fish. (Terrible odds)

The subject of imposter syndrome came up with my mentee. That’ll happen when you’re led to believe you suddenly can’t do anything right in your job.

I shared that I experience imposter syndrome, too. Nearly every day, in fact.

She was surprised to hear that. You seem so composed and always seem to know the right answer, she said.

There are always going to be people out there that are smarter. People that just seem to know the right direction. And people with way more experience than you.

This is a good thing. You get to learn from them.

Be like a sponge and absorb. Then, practice.

As you practice riding your work bike without training wheels, you’re going to fall and skin your knee a few times at first. That’s ok.

Pick your bike back up and keep going. Find a mentor that can help give you a boost. Tell yourself you can do it.

Fake it until you make it.

Do I still get nervous presenting to executives? Yes.

Have I fallen and scraped my knee presenting to executives in the past? Many times. But I’ve had the reps now to feel more confident.

Keep going.

And remember this. That person you think has it all together experiences imposter syndrome too. Even that alpha person who makes your life miserable at work.

They actually have the most imposter syndrome 🤭
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Grant Gurewitz Full-time corporate guy and School of Logging Off Founder

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