It is estimated that 40 to 70 percent of all adults have experienced imposter thoughts.
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Berlin “I was afraid that at some point I would be exposed as an imposter because it turns out that I have no sound knowledge.” Christiane Arp, the former head of German Vogue, said in a recent interview with the news magazine Spiegel. Arp is one of many successful people who doubt themselves despite an exemplary career.
Other prominent like-minded people include the physicist Albert Einstein and the former First Lady Michelle Obama. Both spoke publicly about the fear of being overestimated by others and eventually being exposed as a scammer.
Experts have coined a term for this phenomenon: imposter syndrome. It is estimated that between 40 and 70 percent of all adults have already experienced it. It can happen to anyone. Even people who are very well educated and therefore have little reason to doubt themselves. A recent study by the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
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