My work partner and I both present as confident professionals in client meetings, but we have very different relationships with impostor syndrome and self-doubt that we've never discussed. We end up compensating for each other's insecurities in ways that probably look seamless from the outside but feel unsustainable to maintain.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're both performing confidence while privately managing different insecurities, creating an unsustainable dynamic of unacknowledged mutual support.
“Where Are You with The social self and the private self?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.