For many employees, the typical workday is filled with hundreds\u2014if not thousands\u2014of pressing thoughts, each taking precedence over the previous one. But if you\u2019re like a lot of hardworking, high-achieving people, some less-productive ideas creep in and you begin to question your ability to do your job or whether you really belong where you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those thoughts are impostor syndrome in action, and they can do serious damage to your career and your mental wellness<\/a>. Though not an actual disorder, impostor syndrome\u2014coined by clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes in 1978\u2014affects an estimated 70 percent of the U.S. population, according to a clinical research paper<\/a> published in the Journal of Behavioral Science<\/em>. WeWork Labs spoke with three experts about what impostor syndrome is, and how you can combat those naysaying thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n