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Why professional success can feel like elaborate performance

I am successful by any measure but I still feel like I am pretending to be someone I am not every day at work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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When workplace culture requires fundamental alteration of self, achievement becomes indistinguishable from sustained impersonation.

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