Imposter Syndrome:a myth or reality.

“I am not worth anything “

“I am not good enough”

“No one wants to be my friend”

These are the phases through which any teenager can resonate with .Nowadays, every Gen Z member feels like they are not worth anything and what every little or huge advancements they have made in their is just by a stroke of LUCK which is termed as IMPOSTER SYNDROME and no it’s not about the infamous game Among us .

If we go back into depth of these thoughts several things get unleashed as we live in a world of huge stimulus.Imposter syndrome is not something strange as research shows that around 70%of people at any point in their life suffer from this.

All the time so much is happening that it is very easy to fall into the trap FOMO.

There are some ways which can help people get rid of imposter syndrome

1. KNOW THE SIGNS

• You feel like you “got lucky” when you actually prepared well and worked hard.
• You find it hard to accept praise.
• You apologize for yourself when you didn’t actually do something wrong.
• You hold yourself to incredibly sometimes impossibly high standards.
• You find the fear of failure paralyzing.
• You avoid expressing confidence because you think people will see it as overcompensating or obnoxious.
• You’re convinced you’re not enough.
• This can be improved by giving attention to your thoughts and pay attention to the language you use while talking to your friends about yourself or even when you are just talking to yourself .
• 2.”Being kind to yourself” simply means changing the way you talk to yourself in your head by practicing positive self-talk. Not only can it help you become less stressed and anxious, but it can also help you build the courage to do things that’ll bring you greater rewards.

3.Try to keep a record of your progress When you feel like an impostor, one of the hardest things to grasp is how much of a role you have in your own successes. You might default them to luck or others’ hard work, when in fact, your own work, knowledge, and preparation had a lot to do with it.To help show

• yourself that you’re actually doing well, keep track of your wins in a private document.There are a lot of different ways to track these successes, and the metrics you use will depend entirely on your job. If you’re a blogger, you might keep track of your posts’ monthly average page views and watch them go up, or compare them to the team average. You might also keep a separate tab to paste kind words people have written to you via email, Twitter, blog comments, and so on.
• 4.Talk to your mentor or a therapist. No one should suffer in silence. Sharing your thoughts and experiences with someone else will make you better equipped to deal with your impostor syndrome .Talk to someone who appreciates you in their life and acknowledges whatever big or small you achieve on a personal or a professional level.They will help you to develop self love and will also remind you the time when you did hard work to get the job or a particular grade.
• To conclude,We know what the feeling is called. We know others suffer from it. We know a little bit about why we feel this way. And we now know how to handle it: Invite it in and remind ourselves why it’s here and what it means.