Flawed fraud squad is wasting our time

FOREIGN Secretary David Lammy says he’s suffered from it at “every stage” of his life.

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Michelle Obama reveals that in her multimillion bestselling autobiography Becoming that she was paralysingly afflicted by it. Many hugely successful individuals who seem to exude confidence and authority insist it stops them in their tracks.

What am I talking about? Impostor syndrome. You might be crippled by IS yourself. If you are, you'll be all too familiar with the symptoms. One minute you're striding forth oozing vim, vigour and enthusiasm, the next you're gripped by anxiety and ask yourself with mounting panic: “How can I convincingly pass myself off as capable when, deep down, I know P’m an unqualified fraud?”