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Secret thoughts of successful women

By: Language: English Publisher: Random House Usa Inc, 2011Description: 272 sidor 24.1 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780307452719
DDC classification:
  • 155.333 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Dogb
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Book Biblioteket HKR Biblioteket 155.3 Young Available 11156000189020
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel--and act--as bright and capable as others already know you are with this award-winning book by Valerie Young.

It's only because they like me. I was in the right place at the right time. I just work harder than the others. I don't deserve this. It's just a matter of time before I am found out. Someone must have made a terrible mistake.

If you are a working woman, chances are this inter­nal monologue sounds all too familiar. And you're not alone. From the high-achieving Ph.D. candidate convinced she's only been admitted to the program because of a clerical error to the senior executive who worries others will find out she's in way over her head, a shocking number of accomplished women in all ca­reer paths and at every level feel as though they are faking it--impostors in their own lives and careers.

While the impostor syndrome is not unique to women, women are more apt to agonize over tiny mistakes, see even constructive criticism as evi­dence of their shortcomings, and chalk up their accomplishments to luck rather than skill. They often unconsciously overcompensate with crippling perfec­tionism, overpreparation, maintaining a lower pro­file, withholding their talents and opinions, or never finishing important projects. When they do succeed, they think, Phew, I fooled 'em again.

An internationally known speaker, Valerie Young has devoted her career to understanding women's most deeply held beliefs about themselves and their success. In her decades of in-the-trenches research, she has uncovered the often surprising reasons why so many accomplished women experience this crushing self-doubt.

In The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women, Young gives these women the solution they have been seek­ing. Combining insightful analysis with effective ad­vice and anecdotes, she explains what the impostor syndrome is, why fraud fears are more common in women, and how you can recognize the way it mani­fests in your life.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • 1 Feel Like an Impostor? Join the Club (p. 13)
  • 2 Consider the Source (p. 27)
  • 3 It's Not All in Your Head (p. 47)
  • 4 Hiding Out (p. 71)
  • 5 What Do Luck, Timing, Connections, and Personality Really Have to Do with Success? (p. 91)
  • 6 The Competence Rule Book for Mere Mortals (p. 105)
  • 7 Responding to Failure, Mistakes, and Criticism (p. 137)
  • 8 Success and the Female Drive to Care and Connect (p. 153)
  • 9 Is It "Fear" of Success or Something Else? (p. 177)
  • 10 Why "Fake It Till You Make It" Is Harder for Women-and Why You Must (p. 197)
  • 11 Rethinking Risk Taking and Cultivating Chutzpah (p. 223)
  • 12 Playing Big (p. 241)
  • Appendix: The Dirty Little Secret About the Impostor Syndrome (p. 257)
  • Notes (p. 261)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 277)
  • Author's Note (p. 281)
  • Index (p. 283)