by Valerie Young | May 27, 2025 | Articles, Blog - No Header
One of my clients had spent years lovingly caring for an ailing parent. After “Kim’s” mother passed, she began to write a play about her experience. Then she stopped. “What if my play is a hit?” she said, “Then I’d have to play big.” Kim wasn’t afraid of failure;...
by Valerie Young | May 1, 2025 | Articles, Blog - No Header
Valerie Young, Ed.D. Co-Founder, Impostor Syndrome Institute It’s been well over 20 years since I identified the five types of impostor syndrome. The Perfectionist, Expert, Natural Genius, Soloist, and Superhuman each reflect an extreme view of what it means to be...
by Valerie Young | Apr 2, 2025 | Articles, Blog - No Header
For the Perfectionist, there is a single focus, and that is how something is done. Your competence rule book is relatively straightforward. I should deliver an unblemished performance 100 percent of the time. Every aspect of my work must be of the highest...
by Valerie Young | Mar 11, 2025 | Articles, Blog - No Header
I just received notice from Random House that a publisher in Bulgaria wants to publish my book! That makes translations in Italian, Korean, Czech, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian (in Ukraine), and later this year, Ukrainian and Turkish. I’m not telling you this to...
by Valerie Young | Jan 14, 2025 | Articles, Blog - No Header
Seeing my work cited in articles on tackling impostor syndrome is always a treat. Sometimes more so than others. Like the blog post that featured my solutions before concluding that implementing them is “easier said than done.” The writer was surprised when I chimed...
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