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You Are Not Your Doubt: How I Struggle with and Overcome Impostor Syndrome

May 24, 2018 Cody Lakin

This post is somewhat difficult to write.  I don't mean that in an emotional sense, or even in the sense of laying out and really articulating what I want to say about impostor syndrome.  Talking about and understanding impostor syndrome has become surprisingly easy in the last couple of months since first realizing that I have it and have had it for most of my life.  The hard part is, of course--and somewhat ironically, I'm aware--even admitting that I have it.

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