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The impostor syndrome

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What holds us back from being more confident at work is often a sense that we are fundamentally different from those who succeed. The School of Life explains how we suffer – needlessly – from the impostor syndrome.

The imposter syndrome begins in how children sense how different their parents are from them. True or false?

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