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When professional success feels like betraying your identity

Every time I succeed at work I wonder if it's because I've gotten really good at making white people comfortable or because I'm actually talented.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement within systems of power can create doubt about the authenticity of one's accomplishments.

Ideas that help explain it
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