By Laura Berman Fortgang
“Sure, I can do it.” How many times have you said that and then wondered if you were suffering from dementia? You just agreed to run for president of the PTA or do a presentation on a topic you are clueless about or start a business from scratch or a myriad of other things you have no business doing. You probably feel like you are perched on a mountain in Acapulco about to take the famous dive into the narrow abyss down below. What do you do? You pretend. You fake it until you CAN do it.
Whoever said you needed to know what you were doing to be able to do it well? Someone must have because so many of us feel that we cannot do certain things until we are experts at it. There are so many of us who suffer from the Impostor Syndrome, sure we will be discovered as the utter failures that we are-sure that everyone is looking at us and thinking: “Who the heck does she think she is?” Well, who she thinks she is doesn’t matter because if it did, most of us would never accomplish anything. What she does matters and it can change who she thinks she is.
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