by valerie@impostorsyndrome.com | Sep 7, 2017 | Articles, Blog
When asked in an interview if he ever felt like an impostor, Saturday Night Live writer and comedian John Mulaney replied: “Oh yeah. Steve Higgins [a producer for SNL] asked me on one of my first one or two days: ‘You feel like a fraud?’ And I said yes, and he...
by valerie@impostorsyndrome.com | Aug 8, 2013 | Articles
Feeling Like a Fraud Wednesday, June 2, 2004 By Susan Pinker, Special to The Globe and Mail When Prof. Monique Frize was offered a prestigious academic research chair on women in engineering, her first reaction was a sense of foreboding, not pride. Despite past...
by valerie@impostorsyndrome.com | Sep 19, 2011 | Blog
“I still believe,” confessed Mike Myers, “that at any time the No-Talent Police will come and arrest me.” Myers is not alone. The question is, why do so many clearly smart, capable, successful people feel like intellectual frauds who are merely impersonating a...
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