Mad+ux imposter syndrome presentation
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This document discusses impostor syndrome and strategies for overcoming it. It summarizes research showing that about 50% of people experience feelings of being a fraud and being unqualified for their roles. It also includes results from surveys that found around half of respondents worry that others will lose respect for them once they see their work. The document provides advice from experts, such as that behaviors can be changed, attributes cannot, and that visualizing success can help reinforce positive self-images. It aims to help people understand impostor syndrome and realize they are not alone in experiencing feelings of inadequacy.
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Mad+ux imposter syndrome presentation
- 1. #ImpSyn “We’re Not Worthy”:! Understanding & Escaping! Impostor Syndrome Lori Widelitz-Cavallucci Amy Silvers ! Madison+UX 2014 #ImpSyn
- 4. #ImpSyn “I feel like that every day.”!
- 5. #ImpSyn “(T)hese women find innumerable means of negating any external evidence that contradicts their belief that they are, in reality, unintelligent.”! ! —Clance & Imes, from their 1978 study
- 6. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “Impostor Phenomenon designates an internal experience of intellectual phoniness.”
- 7. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “I’m not as capable as people think I am.”! !
- 8. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Any praise and recognition leads to discounting the success.
- 9. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn “My success is due to luck and nothing else.”!
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- 18. #ImpSyn “Sometimes, I feel like my career is an exercise in ice skating up hill: there are constantly new skills to learn, new lessons to learn, new tools to master, and there is a lot of pressure to be good at a lot of things.”
- 20. #ImpSyn “It's a sort of continuous feeling that my education and experience aren't good enough, that I don't actually know anything more than anyone else does, and that by writing or giving talks or workshops that I'm just a fraud. And, of course, everyone will realize it soon, or they're just being too nice to point out that I don't know what I'm talking about.”
- 21. #ImpSyn 48# 51# 46.5% 47% 47.5% 48% 48.5% 49% 49.5% 50% 50.5% 51% 51.5% Yes# No# When#people#compliment#you#on#your#ability#or# performance,#do#you#ever#think#they’re#“just# being#nice”?#
- 22. #ImpSyn “I don't think I am as talented as people tell me I am. I constantly doubt myself. Every year at my yearly review, I'm told I'm doing great when I think I'm doing just ok. You would think I would gain confidence and learn from this but I still constantly doubt myself.”
- 23. #ImpSyn “I know that I'm not, but I spend most of my professional life feeling like a complete fraud.”
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- 27. #ImpSyn “There are no information architects. There are no interaction designers. There are only, and only ever have been, user experience designers.”
- 28. #ImpSyn “All this talk about being a unicorn I think contributes to a feeling of inadequacy for people who aren't.”
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- 30. #ImpSyn “There's always something new to learn that pulls you out of your comfort zone and makes you feel uneasy, but to me that's the fun of it.”
- 31. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn What's the worst thing that can happen?
- 32. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Don't equate expertise with infallibility. We can be both.
- 33. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn We only see what others want us to see, including insecurities and fears.
- 34. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn Behaviors = changeable ! Attributes not changeable
- 38. #ImpSyn –Steven Ungerleider, Ph.D. “…research shows that athletes who envision themselves performing well throughout the day tend to have these positive visions at night! ! …reinforcing the image of success in their brains.”
- 39. #ImpSyn#ImpSyn We are all in this together.! ! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!