95% of highly successful people experience imposter syndrome but hide it. Three ways to fight it: challenge your self-critical thoughts with evidence, keep a highlight reel of past wins, and build a network that affirms your strengths.
95% of enormously successful people at some point experience deep imposter syndrome. And the problem is they can't tell anybody because it's like such a shameful thing. So please ask my Delphi, please, how to handle imposter syndrome, and you will get a lot of tools about how to handle imposter syndrome, including challenging, really getting it attuned, tuning in on the thoughts, the actual thoughts that you're having, and challenging them with evidence. Number 2, creating a highlight reel, which is about times you overcame challenges to remind yourself of your greatness when you kind of forget about it. And certainly, number 3 is about finding your support group of people who remind you of your greatness on a regular basis. And all of those things repeated one at a time on a regular basis will help you overcome normal imposter syndrome that will then help you flourish and build companies because we need your talents and we need you in the world building companies. And creating new things. And that's what creates our world so great, makes our world so great.
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