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s watching what looked like entertainment to them, the brutal beating of some white people and only one of the hundred people thought to do something about it. Now I don't know if any of the hundred people tried to physically stop the beating because I didn't see that in any of the videos. But someday I'm going to share my secret on how to avoid being brutally attacked. I don't know if you've hear…
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Now I have a cure for that. You ready? So this is something that took me a long time to learn. When I first entered the workforce, I of course believed that I was worthless because I didn't know anything. I had no experience, didn't know how the company worked, and that I was a total impostor and that I had to just sort of pretend I knew what I was doing. Then eventually, you know, you learn how some things work. But then I would get promoted or change jobs just when I was learning how the thing worked. And then I would be in a new unfamiliar situation in which I was once again the least capable person in that environment. But I'd work on it until I could build up some experience and capability and then I would change jobs again. I changed jobs a lot every six to nine months when I was a banker. And so I often almost continuously had the impostor syndrome but it never really bothered me except for maybe the first few months.
Here's my reframe so that you can learn to avoid your own impostor syndrome. It goes like this. Everybody is an impostor. Everybody is bluffing. Everybody all the time. And they also feel that you can tell that they're bluffing and they're hoping that you don't kn
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ow that they're bluffing. The moment you realize it's universal, that everybody's bluffing and they all feel like they don't know enough about their own field, then it won't bother you. You're not the one person who's the impostor. It's all impostors all the way down. It's turtles all the way down. So try that reframe. And by the way, I guarantee it's true. So you don't have to just say it and the…
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