Imposter Experience isn’t a deficit in capability, it’s a lens that makes us feel like we’re not as capable as we actually are. A doubt in our abilities and a ceiling on our confidence.
Generally over time as we build more experience in a certain thing our competence improves. When we prove ourselves competent we generally also increase a rise in confidence at the same time. Now we know we can do it, that belief and confidence follows.
Competence and confidence are different and when Imposter Experience is at play we are often more competent than our confidences permits. Our confidence is lower because it’s capped by the ceiling that is our Imposterism. At this point regardless of how much more competence we’re building we simply don’t have the associated rise in confidence to recognise it so it goes unnoticed.
It’s why we often get this feeling that others think we’re better than we are. Our confidence has been limited and of course they’re viewing our competence without the imposed ceiling that our own Imposterism gives us – the lens of self-doubt I often talk about.
The important thing to note is that this ceiling is moveable and that it doesn’t have to impact our competence and confidence unless we let it.
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