Stop Letting Self-Doubt Rob You
Don't let the negative behaviors it creates zap your energy and focus
In this issue #97:
Stop Letting Self-Doubt Rob You
We are not Truth Seeking Animals
Stop Letting Self-Doubt Rob You
Great article on imposter syndrome by INSEAD Professor Nathan Furr, and his wife, entrepreneur Susannah Furr, on the prevalence of imposter syndrome.
Nathan is an expert on innovation, and dealing with uncertainty.
Imposter Syndrome and mindset are the first thing we work on in our Executive Breakthrough Mastermind.
We've heard some people say that their self-doubt is a good thing, because it's a motivator to work harder. We view that framing as a recipe for running the endless treadmill. It's like a hamster running on a wheel for that elusive treat just out of reach.
Self-doubt can be thought of as a cognitive bias, and realizing that fact is the first step in overcoming it.
The next step is seeing the ways in which self-doubt robs you of precious energy, through anxiety, procrastination, and discouragement. It leads to avoidance behaviors that make our self-doubt self-fulfilling.
The third step is to connect with our core of interests, talents and skills that are needed by others.
Doubt your self-doubt
See the negative behaviors it creates
Connect more closely with your core
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What is the Mastermind? It is a live, virtual transformational experience - designed to give you pragmatic experience in accelerating your own career in the transition to the executive level, and in executing effectively once you’re there. We focus in 4 key transformational areas:
Developing Executive Mindset
Learning to design and build Organizational Capability
Super-charging your Leadership Influence and leading big change
Finding the next opportunity in your new career arc
Click to learn more and find out about the 4 common personal traps that prevent leaders from thriving at the executive level.
Nailing Executive Influence - honing your truth-telling skills
To nail executive persuasion, the most important insight to realize:
"We are not truth-seeking animals."
Here’s Jeff Bezos on truth telling in organizations.
Think that the key to a persuasive pitch is making the best rational, fact-based case? Because organizations naturally see the merits?
Those cases usually end up dead last.
Organizations commonly overlook the best cases, because of their merits.
To master your persuasive influence, you're going to have to address all the ways your idea is a threat. And frankly that’s not easy and skills to do it are not readily taught.
Executive Persuasion is a key topic in our Executive Breakthrough Mastermind.