Launch Week, Imposter Syndrome, Learning to Say Thank You

The book is out. And I'm both relieved and completely in my head about it.

In this solo episode, I get honest about launch week. The marketing company sent more messages than I ever would have, and it made me feel icky watching people opt out. I hit the Amazon bestseller list, which felt great. And I got the kind of compliment on the book I never expected, from someone who's turned down thirty other requests for the same thing.

None of that fully quieted the voice asking if the book is actually any good.

So I looked into the research on imposter syndrome, and it turns out it shows up in two very different ways. One is the fear of looking unqualified, which stops people from asking questions. The other is not being able to accept it when you've actually succeeded. I don't have the first one. I ask questions all the time. I've got the second one, bad.

I share what I found, including a Stanford-based systematic review covering 14,000 people and a separate MIT study on how imposter thoughts actually show up at work, and what it means for how I'm handling compliments (badly) and asking for business (also badly, but for a different reason).

Email me at JDoran@neuroconversantleadership.com and tell me: which version do you carry?

Link to the study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31848865/