International Imposter Syndrome Awareness Day: A Huge Success

Nathaniel Schooler
11 min readApr 18, 2021
Live Kim-Adele, Me and Melissa Sassi from IBM and Dona Sarkar From Microsoft

Imposter syndrome awareness day: a huge success

Have you ever felt like a fraud? Like at any moment someone is going to find out who you really are and that your work is not as good as it seems. Sometimes people with Imposter Syndrome may get by for years without anyone realizing what they’re feeling, but at the end of the day, they feel like an imposter.

We are now in the second year of IISAD, details can be found here: https://legacymediahub.com/international-imposter-syndrome-awareness-day-iisad2022-notanimposter/

But what is “Impostor Syndrome?”

“Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon, impostorism, fraud syndrome or the impostor experience) is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud”.[1] Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve all they have achieved. Individuals with impostorism incorrectly attribute their success to luck, or interpret it as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent than they perceive themselves to be.[2] Impostor syndrome also occurs in normal…

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Nathaniel Schooler

Ex-IBM Futurist, Podcaster, Amazon Best Selling Author, and Entrepreneur