Welcome to this summer 2025 re-release! Throughout August, I will be re-releasing my favourite episodes from The Rewriters archives, as we warm up for a brand-new season coming 1st September 2025.
About the episode (originally released June 2022):
Key episode discussion points:
- Why to stop trying to be confident – and what to do instead
- Where confidence and imposter syndrome intersect
- What imposter syndrome is – my beliefs and what I’ve learned
- How to overcome imposter syndrome (one step at a time)
Resources referenced:
- Why you should stop trying to be more confident by Monique Shaw3 https://www.rewriterewrite.com/blog/stop-trying-to-be-confident
- Are you making decisions for other people in your career? https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/weekly-rewrites-2-are-you-making-decisions-for-other/id1538589146?i=1000566485119
- Making bold career moves without certainty with Dr Parth Shah https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/making-bold-career-moves-without-certainty-with-dr/id1538589146?i=1000515954033
- Contextualizing the Impostor “Syndrome” by Feenstra et al - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575024/full
- Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review by Bravata et al –
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7174434/
- Feel like a fraud by Kirsten Weir - https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2013/11/fraud
- There's a Surprising Upside to Imposter Syndrome, Research Shows by David Nield - https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-there-is-an-upside-to-imposter-syndrome-at-work
- How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome by Jeremy Sutton PhD - https://positivepsychology.com/imposter-syndrome-tests-worksheets/
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