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Imposter Syndrome: The Mindset And Culture That Is Plaguing Lawyers

Does this sound familiar? Feeling that you’re not cut out for the work you’re doing or the work you want to be doing?

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Ed. note: This post is by Jeena Cho, a Legal Mindfulness Strategist. She is the co-author of The Anxious Lawyer (affiliate link), a book written by lawyers for lawyers that makes mindfulness and meditation accessible and approachable. She is the creator of Mindful Pause, a self-paced online program for creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and productive law practice in just six minutes a day. Jeena offers actionable change strategies for reducing stress and anxiety while increasing productivity, joy, and satisfaction through mindfulness.

Does this sound familiar? Feeling that you’re not cut out for the work you’re doing or the work you want to be doing and fear of being found out as feeling like a fraud?

You might be suffering from the imposter syndrome. As Neha Sampat, the CEO, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab shared in her interview with me:

Imposter Syndrome is the feeling that you’re not cut out for the work you’re doing or the work you want to be doing, combined with the fear of being found out as feeling like a fraud. Often these feelings of not being cut out for the work you’re doing, they’re not actually supported by objective facts. And that’s the interesting part.

It’s not uncommon at all for anyone to experience it, but particularly marginalized populations, women, and minorities tend to experience it at a greater incidence because it’s a form of internalized bias.

Neha says you can learn to work with it by accepting that there is this thing called Imposter Syndrome and starting to consider that it might be what underlies some of your self-doubts, and that’s when you can start to dispel some of those voices in your head.

Often those voices in our head are not our own voices. If we dig deep, we realize that they’re the voice of a teacher.

Listen to the full interview over at Jeena’s website…

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