A writer working on a book about doubt explains that imposter syndrome hits when you leave your comfort zone, which actually signals growth. He argues you can reframe the fight-or-flight response it triggers as fuel for development instead of a sign you don't belong.
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I'm in the process of writing a book at the moment all about doubt and how we can recognize the different archetypes of doubt. So if we touch on a couple, the one that most people feel more often than not is imposter syndrome. But imposter syndrome appears when you are stepping outside of your comfort zone, which generally means you are doing something that's expanding your boundaries, not retracting your boundaries. Oh. It means you're pushing yourself to become better, to do something new, to step outside of that comfort zone. So imposter syndrome, when you actually start to reframe it that way, is something that you can leverage because it means you're actually doing something productive. You're doing something good for yourself. So as much as it feels awful at the time, and you start to get all of those kind of fight or flight responses. If you can learn to recognize it and learn to harness it in a way that benefits you, it can be really good.