Here are the signs by which you can recognize impostor syndrome in yourself: you are driven by the fear of failure, so before each new task or project you feel anxious and exert yourself to complete it, or on the contrary - you procrastinate, and after completing the task, you begin to think that everything it turned out only thanks to supernatural forces, and if it was done easily and quickly, then you think that you are just lucky, and you are convinced that for many years you have been deceiving people who consider you a professional, and you feel the fear of being exposed, you are afraid that you are about to be exposed and will be branded as untalented, stupid or a person with low qualifications, and secretly you want to be better than others, but when you meet other professionals, you realize that you are far from unique and many people are not inferior to you, and at such moments you tend to think that everyone others are much better than you, and attribute success to external factors, chance, luck, ignore praise and recognition of your achievements, level off compliments, and paradoxically, if you are criticized, you are more likely to rebel because, secretly, you understand , which is not bad at all and is actually worth something.