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When career success amplifies feelings of inadequacy

I am making more money than ever but I feel like a fraud every day and I keep waiting for someone to figure out I do not belong here.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

External validation fails to resolve internal beliefs about worthiness, creating cognitive dissonance at higher levels of achievement.

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