How to Succeed in a Competitive Environment if You Experience “Imposter Phenomenon”
<p>Sitting in the business school amphitheatre, I can feel my heart rate speeding up. I look towards the door and contemplate a trip to the restroom to ease my anxiety.</p>
<p>Instead, I force myself to sit and breathe.</p>
<p>This is how I felt in every one of the hundreds of hours of business school. Despite preparation, familiar anxiety, beginning with my heart rate speeding up would inevitably creep in.</p>
<p>Listening to one of the other students reply to a question about the case study of the day, the anxiety would ratchet up.</p>
<p><em>“That’s not what I was going to say. Maybe I am wrong.”</em></p>
<p>At this point, I would start madly flipping through the case study, reviewing highlighted markings and looking for a gem of insight.</p>
<p>God help me if this was the point at which I was cold-called for an opinion or response.</p>
<p>Looking back over many years and a successful career in Management Consulting, the holy grail career after business school, gives me mixed feelings:</p>
<ul>
<li>pride for that girl, who made it into business school as a nurse and, as I now know,<em> belonged</em> there</li>
<li>sadness that she felt her opinion was not as valid as the other students in the class, despite likely having prepared more</li>
</ul>
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