Today I'm having a conversation with Tara Halliday.
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Tara is an executive coach with over 25 years of experience and in recognized specialist
in imposter syndrome.
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She's the author of two
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Amazon number one best sellers, "Outsmart Imposter Syndrome" and "Unmasking: the Coach's
Guide to Imposter Syndrome".
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Tara created the inner success program,an eight week one-to-one coaching journey designed
specifically for executives to eliminate imposter syndrome at its root, restoring calm,
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clarity and confidence.
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Welcome Clara to "Poder aprender".
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I'm delighted to be here, Walter.
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Thank you for having me.
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What is the difference between lacking confidence in a new skill, like learning a language
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truly experiencing imposter syndrome?
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That's a brilliant question, Walter, because you can have imposter syndrome and be
learning a new language, and you can be learning a language and not have imposter
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syndrome.
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So where would you separate them out?
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So when you're learning a language, imposter syndrome will show up in several ways.
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So imposter syndrome is the secret feeling of being a fraud, of being not quite good
enough, and feeling that you'll be found out, feel like you don't belong.
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And it affects over 70 % of people.
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So if you're learning a language, if you're building skills, likely you're one of the
people with imposter syndrome.
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It's not a personality trait, it's not a flaw or anything like that.
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And we'll get into more of what it is in a bit.
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But how it'll show up is fundamentally self doubt.
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And it's self doubt in terms of, say you're learning a language and you're three weeks in.
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and you're comparing yourself to other people and you think, I'll never get there.
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I'm stuck, you know, there's so much better than I am.
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So that comparison will drag you down.
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Who am I to, who do I think I can learn another language?
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Who am I to do that?
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Yes.
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Or I'll never get there.
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So it creates a lot of self doubt.
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I was a lot of self criticism.
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Particularly,
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one of the symptoms of imposter syndrome is perfectionism.
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So if you're perfectionist, then you want to do everything right first time.
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And so being a learner in any area at all, it's really uncomfortable because it doesn't
feel like you don't have the feeling like, I'm just learning.
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So it's okay to make mistakes.
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It's I'm, I must be good at this right away and mistakes are bad.
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And so that can put this whole load of pressure onto you.
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And so that's really where it'll come out most in terms of your language learning and your
skills learning.
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It makes a lot of sense and I appreciate that.
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You say that we can learn still with when we're lacking in confidence.
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Otherwise it would be so hard to make progress.
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Yeah, and one of the things that's really important is...
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to believe that you'll be able to do it.
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So this is part of confidence is to believe that yes, you will be able to do it if you
persevere.
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And also if you have the right support, know, there's, people feel alone with imposter
syndrome.
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They feel so isolated.
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They feel like they're the only one who's struggling.
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And then they beat themselves up for struggling because, I'm not good enough because I'm
struggling.
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Nobody else seems to be struggling.
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Even if you go to a language class, you might look around and think,
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Everybody else is doing so much better than me.
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All of those kind of comparisons, these sneaky things creep in.
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So any support that you can get is really, really valuable.
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So that support in terms of teachers, in terms of peers and colleagues who are learning at
the same time as you, it's podcasts like this.
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Anywhere you can find it, it's gonna be helpful.
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So what you're saying, what I hear you saying is that keeping it inside, invisible makes
it easier to, and it's giving its sustenance.
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And when we are bringing that outside, when we put it to the light, it's more challenging.
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and it's harder to exist.
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Yes, would say that's definitely.
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So em imposter syndrome gets triggered where you've got a combination of high challenge
and low support.
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So the more support you give, we don't want to take the challenge down.
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We don't say, I won't bother learning a language, right?
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We don't want to take challenge down, but the more support we give, the easier it's going
to be.
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And the more support we have, the more we stop blaming ourselves.
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Now, one of the things about imposter syndrome is people think that it's them that's
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something wrong with them, it's personality flaw or weakness or something like that.
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And so they don't talk about it.
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You're right, people keep it a secret because they're embarrassed about it.
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And when you keep it a secret, that perpetuates this feeling that you're not quite good
enough, that everybody else is doing so much better than you, or you should be further
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along, that whole I should be this, that and the other is really the
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There's something I see in the community of language learners and other skills as well is
that
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people start thinking that they are not talented when something feels challenging, when
something feels hard.
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They started learning something and they said at a certain point, maybe I'm not talented.
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And how can we tell when that belief is a symptom of imposter syndrome?
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Yeah, well, that's actually the root cause of imposter syndrome.
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So if you think of imposter syndrome, this self doubt, these behaviors like comparison and
perfectionism, the stress that goes with them, that's all the symptoms of imposter
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syndrome.
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The root cause of imposter syndrome is when what we do means something about who we are.
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We've put together, imposter syndrome is where we put together who we are and what we do.
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So if we do something good.
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We are good, right?
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If we succeed, we're good.
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If we do something bad, we are bad.
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So you can see it's a very dangerous space to be thinking about because if you make
mistakes, then you think, oh, it must be me.
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It must be a lack of talent.
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And there are a number of studies, because I enjoy learning languages and there have been
a number of...
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you know, studies and there are, you know, software apps, all sorts of things like that,
that I've proved that actually, if you have a learning pattern or learning method that
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works for you, because not everything works for everyone, if you have one that works for
you, you will succeed in it.
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The brain is, you know, if you can speak your own language, you can speak another one.
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You just need the right pathway through.
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So, and there are some people who are amazingly talented and, you know, there's a guy on
YouTube I've been watching recently and he learned Chinese in a year and he goes around
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the world and he learns all these languages and then he speaks to, you know, the Cherokee
in their own language and he goes to Africa and speaks Soheili and he's absolutely
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amazing, incredible, mesmerizing to watch.
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But if you're comparing yourself to someone like that, it's never going to be helpful.
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It's never going to support you or encourage you to learn.
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So yes, there are amazingly talented people, but I think everyone can learn with the right
tools and approach.
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Yeah.
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And something that I've talked about in this podcast is the relationship we have with
those who are ahead and with those who we see as more talented or more gifted.
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And this is something that I...
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shared about early on.
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And the way I see it, we can take that as a threat.
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We can feel intimidated by them or we can feel inspired by them can say, look what it's
possible.
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Look, this guy was learning and who dares to do that.
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I know who you're talking about.
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And I've seen like his most recent videos.
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He now is trying...
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to interact and to communicate with animals.
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So he's learning animal languages now.
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He's taking it like one more step.
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And yeah, and that's super inspiring, like at so many levels.
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So I think that we can use those such examples in a way that...
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inspire us and that empower us.
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It's a choice, I believe.
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100%.
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So there is, so the brain, cause I do a lot of work with, know, how the brain works.
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This is the thing I geek out on, right?
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So comparing comparison, right?
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It's a, it's a typical habit of imposter syndrome.
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Now the way comparison works in imposter syndrome is you compare yourself to someone else.
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They look brilliant, like they're having no problems at all.
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They're fantastic.
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They're succeeding and, and, and we attribute
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talent to them, right?
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This is who we are and what we do.
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We're mixing that up again.
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And then we compare.
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And when we compare, we look for the differences, right?
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Now your brain is designed to spot differences in your environment so it can spot dangers.
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Like if you're driving down a road through the field of cows and then suddenly there's a
bright purple cow at the end, your brain is going to go, what's that?
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Right?
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It zooms in on anything that's different.
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Because that's how it looks out for danger.
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So you can't just stop yourself comparing.
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But what you can do is when you notice that you're looking at these differences, flip it
around and start to look for similarities.
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How am I the same as that person?
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What experiences do I have?
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You know, what values do we have in common?
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You know, even what food is doing that we like, right?
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Anything.
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The more you feel similar to that person, the more you'll feel better because you'll feel
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You're like them, you won't feel so isolated.
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And then the differences don't seem as important.
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So you'll feel more like you belong.
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And so that that judgment, that self judgment from the differences will go down.
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So that's a very good way to then view someone.
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And then you can say, OK, well, I am
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they have been learning for 10 years and I've been learning for 10 days.
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So, you maybe I'll cut myself some slack there.
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You know, you start to bring in the perspective because it's no longer making you feel bad
about yourself.
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And then when you have that perspective, you can say, yeah, but that's really
inspirational.
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Right.
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So that's how you can flip from it making feel bad to it being really inspirational.
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And it's still comparing.
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Yeah, that's brilliant.
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I love that.
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Start looking for similarities.
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I might be different to this person, this and that, and I'm similar in this other ways.
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And that's amazing.
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In terms of comparisons, something that I've heard about, like when we're comparing
ourselves with another language learner, I heard somebody say that if you want to compare
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to a person who's learning a language, don't do it with an adult who is speaking right
now, who's fluent in that language.
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If you want to compare, maybe compare to a baby who's learning your target language.
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So you can take that as your measure stick.
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Okay, so I'm learning, starting to learn Chinese now.
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Okay.
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Let's compare.
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I will compare starting now with a baby who's starting to learn Chinese right now.
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I'm not going to compare it with a 20 year old, with a 30 year old or a 40 year old.
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That's not a fair comparison.
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that is so true and you know that before a baby starts to say even one word they've been
exposed to language and listening to language this whole time.
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I spent six months in Germany and I've been learning German through the years but what I
found was that when I was in Germany then driving along I was tuned into the German radio.
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You know, on the TV there was German programs that I was watching.
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I walked down the street and I snippets of the German language and that immersion really
made a difference in my comprehension and my ability to recall words because the patterns
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of the language get repeated over and over and over and that's how a baby learns through
these repeated patterns.
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So I think you're absolutely right that comparison to how
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our brains learn a language is brilliant.
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I love what you say.
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And so we should take, or we could take even some, the baby even has some advantage
because he's been in the womb for several months and he got this, time listening to the
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language.
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When babies are learning to talk, the parents repeat things over and over and over.
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Even it's mama, papa, right, the very first thing, right, it is over and over and over.
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So that's the repetition that helps build the structure.
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whilst I'm a big fan of grammar for your traditional way of learning a language.
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There's also the biological way of learning a language through immersion and repetition
that is powerful as well.
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Yeah, there's both.
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And when we started this conversation, we talked about confidence and imposter syndrome.
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And I'm curious about like, what are the difference between self-esteem when we're talking
about a person with low self-esteem and imposter syndrome?
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Is that the same or is there any connection?
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And what are the implications for us as learners?
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Yeah, so if you have low self-esteem, then you know, it's getting towards, you know, kind
of like a psychological diagnosis.
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You might go and see a therapist to help with low self-esteem.
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Low self-esteem will show up in all areas of your life, right?
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So whether it's work, relationships, home life, learning language, it will show up
everywhere.
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Imposter syndrome can show up in a very specific area.
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So for example with the leaders that I work with for example, very talented, very
successful people and they might be great in five different areas that they're dealing
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with every day but there's one that maybe they aren't and that's where their imposter
syndrome is showing up.
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So imposter syndrome can be quite selective.
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So it could be that your imposter syndrome is showing up around learning a language.
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And you don't see it elsewhere in your life.
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You feel very confident and capable the rest of your life.
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Somebody asks you question in that language and you have to reply.
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And suddenly you're feeling on the spot.
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So it may be showing up there.
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Who am I to think I can communicate with someone in another language?
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That's the internal imposter syndrome dialogue.
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So you can see the difference is very, very broad there.
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And there's something in what you said that in that selectivity and that is selective.
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And I'm thinking of people, persons who speak several languages and they might see this
imposter syndrome playing out in one of them.
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Maybe there are few languages that they feel comfortable and they are very confident.
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And then there are those who they feel like a fraud, this is not like who they really are
or that there's something missing.
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Yeah, and you can see it back to the root cause.
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It's where they've tied their worth and who they are with what they do and specifically
whether or not they do well in this language.
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Now, you know, as a language learning expert yourself, you'll know there are different
kinds of languages.
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So, for example, you know, you might find Italian and Spanish and Portuguese really easy
to learn, but German just foxes you.
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Well, they're very different
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basis in terms of the language.
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And so that's one reason you might be finding German harder to learn.
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It's not because suddenly you've stopped being a good learner or something like that.
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But again, if you notice it, it's going to be you'll be making some meaning about it.
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What does not being as far along as you want to be mean about you?
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What do you making it mean about you?
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And when we change what it means about us, then we can relax.
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And for language learning, I particularly speaking language, because understanding is
easier than speaking it.
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But speaking a language, we really have to be free to make mistakes, to muddle our way
through, to put words in the wrong order, to use the wrong tense, to...
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especially if you know quite a few languages.
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You start speaking in another language when you're...
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Or can't find a word.
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I have this with a German and Spanish actually.
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I'm talking in German and I can't find a word but I know it in Spanish.
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It might creep in.
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So there's uh a degree of relaxedness that really helps your learning language.
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And if you're perfectionist and rigid about it and if you're worried about making mistakes
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then that's going to impact you.
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It's going to make you tense.
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That's going to make you, that's going to trigger you.
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And what's really interesting is so imposter syndrome can trigger the nervous system and
being put on the spot, learning a language can trigger your nervous system.
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And what I mean by that is that when your brain detects what it considers to be a threat,
it goes into this
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excited nervous system state, agitated nervous system state.
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It causes you to fight, so it's fight, flight, which is running away, and freeze, where
you just stop and your brain goes blank and you can't think of anything.
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So these, these are states of the nervous system that are designed in your biology,
evolutionary biology, designed to try and protect you from a threat.
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So, you know, if, you know, there's a tiger in the room,
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you know, you might want to fight it to throw things at it, hit it with a stick to make it
go away.
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Or you might run away yourself or you might freeze and hope that it doesn't notice you
because maybe it thinks you're dead.
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Yeah.
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So that's what happens when we get too stressed and that's your body performing normally.
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Now they've done studies of what happens to the brain when you're in that state and
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your blood flow goes to your arms and legs to fight or run away.
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It gets taken from your prefrontal cortex, which is the thinking and strategic planning
part of the brain, the logical part of your brain.
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And you literally don't have as much blood flow.
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You literally don't have the oxygen and the nutrients to work as well.
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So your intelligence, your IQ goes down by 13 points.
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Your creativity goes down by 50 points.
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You get reactive.
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You get emotionally active.
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You get stressed.
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So that's not the state at which you're comfortable experimenting, right?
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Which you don't mind making mistakes.
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This is a tense where the brain's saying, if you say a wrong word to that French person,
then that French person is gonna hate you forever or chase after you with a stick.
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It's what your brain's telling you.
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It perceives it as a threat.
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So if you notice yourself being triggered like this, then calm down as much as you can,
right?
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And don't worry about your body doing just what it's supposed to do.
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It's just not appropriate to do it when you're trying to speak a new language.
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Yeah, so the more you calm you can get, the more...
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relaxed you are about making mistakes, the easier it's going to be and of course the
faster you're going to learn.
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And as I'm sure you that you say to everybody who's learning a language, when you try to
speak somebody else's language, vast majority of people really appreciate the effort that
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you're making.
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Yeah, as the saying goes that it goes to their heart.
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I don't know whose phrase is that.
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I think that...
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Yeah.
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There's a famous quote about like when you're speaking in this language, it goes to their
mind.
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I don't know if it's like this, but when they speak in their native language or their
language, they go directly to their heart.
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You know, that is so interesting.
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So I work with people all around the world, our sessions we work with are in English.
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And if we're talking about emotional things, what I've noticed that people whose first
language isn't English will talk about emotional things, but they feel quite detached,
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right?
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So they're not really feeling it.
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So what I do is I ask them to express it in their own language.
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and it's our emotions are attached to our own language.
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Because we can translate a word like shame, Schade in German, right?
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I know that intellectually that's the word in German, but the English version for me,
because English is my first language, has that emotion to it.
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And so I think that's exactly what you're saying.
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So certainly, you know, people will express their emotions.
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in their own language far more easily than they do in a second language.
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And that's a good transition to my next question.
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And that's how does our cultural or educational background shape the way that imposter
syndrome shows up in our learning process?
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What's most interesting about this is that they've done studies all over the world and the
way that it shows up is exactly the same.
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Imposes it's, it's, so there, there are, there are the patterns, there's three types of
symptoms.
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There's the thoughts, which is feeling ashamed, self-critical, being like you just got
lucky that you don't belong here or they don't, you don't deserve to be here or you don't
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belong.
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So those are the thoughts.
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And then there's the stress of it, the fight, flight and freeze that I was talking about
that can lead to anxiety and overwhelm.
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And there's a whole bunch of compensating behaviors, stress behaviors that we do like
comparing, like perfectionism, but it can include procrastination, avoiding opportunities,
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not speaking up enough, thinking that if you get one more qualification, that will solve
everything.
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And it doesn't just...
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pushing through, over-preparing, all these different kind of symptoms.
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And regardless of, you know, your culture growing up, you're going to be experiencing that
cycle.
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That unique profile will be unique to you, but there's no real correlation to culture, and
there's no correlation to personality, because they searched all personality tests.
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You know, maybe there's a personality
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profile of imposter syndrome.
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Well, there isn't because it's not about your personality.
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You mentioned something before about this relationship and between our actions and how we
see ourselves, our identity.
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And that made me think of the importance of making mistakes to learn.
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And sometimes when we fail, we feel like a failure.
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And I wonder what other...
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other ways of using identity or identifying ourselves, taking an identity that are more
conducive and more helpful to our learning process.
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So that's the fundamental and this is actually how I eliminate imposter syndrome for
people.
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Taking them through learning how to separate their worth as a person from their actions.
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And it's a very simple concept but we are surrounded in all societies across the globe by
this belief.
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It's like a mass hallucination if you like, that our worth as a person depends on what we
do.
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So the more you can focus on separating that out for yourself, just in your thinking, then
that will dial down the imposter syndrome, thoughts and behaviours.
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So that's a real way through.
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And that applies to...
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languages, right?
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Learning languages.
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The more you're free to just play, experiment, try things out, ready to get things wrong.
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So these are different actions, right?
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But the more you're relaxed, the less you're making it mean anything about you.
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Okay?
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I've been stuck on these verb conjugations and I just, you know, for the last three weeks
and then...
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the imposter syndrome part, how stupid am I?
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Who am I to think that I, I to think I can master this?
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And the playful bit is, well, I wonder if there's a song I can sing to help me learn it,
because songs are very powerful way to, to, to learn and integrate languages.
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By the way, just like kids do, they're always singing language songs.
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Yeah.
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So, so the, the more, the more that you're able to separate out your actions from your
worth, then the more
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the easier it's going to be to relax and in that integrate because when if you're tense as
I said when you're triggered your brain's not learning if you're stressed your brain isn't
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learning when you're relaxed that's when your brain can learn
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If you're tense, you're not gonna learn that verb tense.
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Like no words.
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Yeah.
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That's very helpful, so thank you for that.
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That makes me think also that sometimes the learners, some of the identities we take, we
take a lot of pride in that.
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Like, every time, or many times where I hear people calling themselves perfectionists, it
has some like an overtone, something that it's something that they feel proud about.
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Is that something, is it just me or is that something going on around that?
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What's been your experience?
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It's very, very common, right?
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People who are perfectionist believe that that's what makes them good, right?
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Now, the thing is perfectionism is a symptom of imposter syndrome.
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And perfectionism isn't the same as having high standards, right?
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Perfectionism is the need to be perfect, right?
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High standards is just high standards.
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But if you need to be...
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everything to be perfect to be perfect, then you're stressed about things being perfect.
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So, then, but you think because you're reaching for high standards with your
perfectionism, that the perfectionism makes you successful and you'd be proud of it
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because obviously I do quality work.
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You're completely ignoring the fact that people can have high standards and be relaxed
about it.
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There's something I've heard in people's saying when they, the way that they talk about
their...
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perfectionist tendencies is that I had this impression that people want to say, if I stop
being like this, I'm going to lose my drive or I'm going to lose my intensity or like, I'm
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going to stop having goals.
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I won't have any goals at all.
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Like it's perfectionism or nothing.
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And it's hard to convey that idea of high standards or excellence,
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striving for excellence versus being a perfectionist.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And this is why it's so sad.
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find imposter syndrome really sad because it's not anything wrong with the person, but
it's a perspective that it's painful perspective that they really don't need.
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They absolutely don't need it.
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So what I find when I'm working with
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clients and we get rid of because we do we eliminate imposter syndrome.
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It goes away And I find they don't lose their drive.
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They don't lose their ambition.
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In fact, it changes they it actually ramps them up So so when you're a perfectionist,
right?
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Yes, you're doing high quality work, but you're terrified of making a mistake and what
that means is that
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that the distraction of it will slow you down.
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It will allow, you know, you're actually more likely to make mistakes.
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You have to work even harder.
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So it is going to be exhausting to do.
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But also the more you try, you think that that causes your success.
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And so you can't let it go.
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So you think that the drive to be perfect is caused your success.
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When you let go of the perfectionism, that need, you're relaxed about it, you become open
to making mistakes, but open to new opportunities.
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And suddenly things that you would have said as a perfectionist with imposter syndrome, I
don't think I could do that.
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You can absolutely do.
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So I have people who come to me who are in a very senior role, but...
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overwhelmed with what they're doing, and so, so stressed.
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They finish the programme and they're far more relaxed, but they don't want to sit around
on a beach, right?
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It doesn't make you lazy.
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It instead makes you go, well, I wonder what would happen if I did this, right?
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They become explorers, adventurers, experimenters, and they actually...
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and they actually have ambition further than they thought they could ever do because if
they didn't get there, it wouldn't be so devastating to them, right?
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Because they're free to reach for it and they don't have to worry about what it means
about them if they don't get it because it doesn't mean anything.
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it's a, yeah, it actually, perfectionism holds you back far more than you can imagine.
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That's so fascinating.
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It sounds like they are relaxing into action instead of coming from this place of...
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are different ways of taking action.
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It be from place of anxiety and stress.
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and agitation or relaxation being totally at ease with that.
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ah
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talking about.
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What we're talking about is accepting ourselves.
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Accepting ourselves as worthy, accepting ourselves, whatever we do.
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And that gives you the freedom then.
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And because you've got all of the stress fallen away, you are physically more relaxed,
right?
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You're more calm, but you also sleep better.
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You're more focused.
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You can be more productive.
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And the world starts getting quite exciting, right?
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Well, I can go off and do this.
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And here's an opportunity that maybe I would not have taken before because maybe if I got
it wrong, how terrible would things be?
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Here's an opportunity.
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I wonder what would happen.
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I can take that.
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So people are energized with this freedom.
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And that's been my experience.
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They're energized.
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Their ambition is expanded.
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They see more possibilities for themselves.
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And they have a lot more fun as well.
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That's so great.
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My last question is about eliminating imposter syndrome.
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So we talked about separating the identity from the actions, like what we're making it
mean when we make mistakes.
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And what else
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would it be helpful for language learner and skill builder who is looking to eliminate
this at the root?
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Yeah, well to eliminate it at the root, because this belief that our worth depends on what
we do, our worth is conditional, it's unconscious.
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Right?
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So what it is and the way it's showing up is there's a part of your brain, the fear center
in your brain, the amygdala, is always scanning around looking out for danger.
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And so it's identified the challenges to your identity, the challenges to your worth as a
threat.
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To eliminate the root cause of imposter syndrome, there's a very specific process that we
go through to change the way that the amygdala in the brain perceives the world around
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you.
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And that's a very systematic step-by-step process with a very intricate neuroscience
basis.
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So...
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It's not something, it's not a mindset thing.
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It's not a reframing that, you know, how you look at things.
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So to eliminate imposter syndrome takes this work, right?
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And that's, that's the work that I do.
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to dial it down There's several things you can do.
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The very first thing I would suggest you do is to get calm and start noticing when you're
tense.
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Do you go into a fight or flight or freeze?
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Yeah.
432
00:35:23,586 --> 00:35:26,011
Start noticing when you're tense.
433
00:35:26,011 --> 00:35:35,388
And get calm as fast as you can because that will put you back into the learning state
rather than the stress state.
434
00:35:35,388 --> 00:35:43,643
If you're trying to learn things when you're stressed, mean, really don't bother, go and
have a cup of tea or go for a walk because it's not going to go in.
435
00:35:43,643 --> 00:35:52,807
So I think that's probably the most powerful thing you can do to set you on this path to
feel more like you belong,
436
00:35:52,807 --> 00:35:55,012
more like you're not an imposter.
437
00:35:55,850 --> 00:35:56,731
Wonderful.
438
00:35:56,731 --> 00:36:04,456
Can you tell us more about what does your process look like to eliminate imposter syndrome
at the root cause?
439
00:36:04,813 --> 00:36:07,436
Or when people, where can people learn more about that?
440
00:36:07,436 --> 00:36:10,458
Where do you, which spaces do you develop that?
441
00:36:10,655 --> 00:36:12,375
Yeah, well, you know, it's really interesting.
442
00:36:12,375 --> 00:36:14,015
So my work is one to one.
443
00:36:14,015 --> 00:36:17,895
The process, as I mentioned, starts with getting calm.
444
00:36:17,895 --> 00:36:19,955
So it's a three, three step process.
445
00:36:19,955 --> 00:36:21,455
First, we get calm.
446
00:36:21,575 --> 00:36:24,935
Then we clear the belief in the amygdala.
447
00:36:24,935 --> 00:36:28,226
So that's a very, this is a step by step thing that we do.
448
00:36:28,226 --> 00:36:30,006
It's very personal.
449
00:36:30,006 --> 00:36:36,146
So although the process is very systematic,
450
00:36:36,277 --> 00:36:38,810
how you do it is, it's based on your experiences.
451
00:36:38,810 --> 00:36:47,286
So you bring your experiences to it and then put it through this systematic process and
that changes the way the brain perceives, it sees it as no longer a threat.
452
00:36:47,286 --> 00:36:48,547
So that's the clearing.
453
00:36:48,547 --> 00:36:54,350
And then we create, create success and create the new belief about your worth being
conditional.
454
00:36:54,350 --> 00:36:57,862
And so that's a three-step process that I take people through.
455
00:36:57,862 --> 00:37:00,349
It's a 90-day process and...
456
00:37:00,349 --> 00:37:04,516
You can find it on my website, it's completesuccess.co.uk.
457
00:37:04,516 --> 00:37:11,347
I've also written the whole of the process with all of the neuroscience in it, in my book,
"Outsmart Impostor Syndrome".
458
00:37:11,347 --> 00:37:13,632
And you can get that wherever books are sold.
459
00:37:13,632 --> 00:37:14,432
Wonderful.
460
00:37:14,432 --> 00:37:15,052
Thank you.
461
00:37:15,052 --> 00:37:19,934
And is there anything else you'd like to share with my audience that I haven't asked you
today?
462
00:37:20,515 --> 00:37:21,595
Yeah, just one thing.
463
00:37:21,595 --> 00:37:27,817
um If you think you have imposter syndrome, but you're not sure, the very first thing to
do is to check.
464
00:37:27,817 --> 00:37:32,458
And there is a quiz, you can put the link in the show notes.
465
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:33,529
Check out the quiz.
466
00:37:33,529 --> 00:37:44,982
And if you're fed up of overworking, over judging yourself, beating yourself up, fed up
with your perfectionism, whatever is exhausting you, take the quiz.
467
00:37:44,982 --> 00:37:49,343
And if you get over 50%, that's imposter syndrome.
468
00:37:49,343 --> 00:37:56,566
If you get over 62%, then imposter syndrome is having a significant effect on your life.
469
00:37:56,646 --> 00:38:01,368
And so it's worth looking for solutions, looking for other ways.
470
00:38:01,368 --> 00:38:05,088
There's my way and there's other ways that people can...
471
00:38:05,969 --> 00:38:09,350
There are coaches that work with just dialing down the symptoms.
472
00:38:09,350 --> 00:38:14,272
So you don't have to jump into a 90-day one-to-one program to get rid of it.
473
00:38:14,272 --> 00:38:16,114
But there are other things that you can do.
474
00:38:16,114 --> 00:38:16,674
Thank you.
475
00:38:16,674 --> 00:38:17,896
So there's your website.
476
00:38:17,896 --> 00:38:23,462
Are you present on social or other places where people can get in contact with you?
477
00:38:23,462 --> 00:38:31,847
Yeah, so because my clients are, you know, corporate clients, executives and leaders,
because they're very concerned about getting rid of imposter syndrome.
478
00:38:31,847 --> 00:38:34,208
I'm in mostly on LinkedIn.
479
00:38:34,589 --> 00:38:38,931
So my profile on LinkedIn is Tara-Haliday-PhD.
480
00:38:38,931 --> 00:38:42,352
And I'm posting there several times a week.
481
00:38:42,493 --> 00:38:44,813
You can, you know, connect with me.
482
00:38:44,813 --> 00:38:48,356
You can send me a message, ask me questions, anything you like.
483
00:38:48,356 --> 00:38:48,867
Excellent.
484
00:38:48,867 --> 00:38:51,629
It's been wonderful having you today, Tara.
485
00:38:51,629 --> 00:38:52,880
I learned a lot.
486
00:38:52,998 --> 00:39:02,818
on imposter syndrome, I think that's uh such an important topic and so present in our
lives and our everyday lives as a language learner, as skill builders.
487
00:39:02,818 --> 00:39:07,631
And that's something that I also see as a coach on daily basis, very, very regularly.
488
00:39:07,631 --> 00:39:13,854
So thank you so much for being here, for sharing your wisdom and experience with us.
489
00:39:13,854 --> 00:39:15,264
It's absolute pleasure.
490
00:39:15,264 --> 00:39:16,596
Thank you very much.