Let go of unhealthy personal standards

- [Interviewee] Well, there's three kind of categories of things that non-impostors think differently about Pete. First of all, they think differently about competence. People who feel like impostors tend to fall into different kind of mindsets about how they measure our competence. We hold ourselves to these unrealistically high, unsustainably high standards that no human could consistently hit. So you might be a perfectionist, for example. So in your kind of mental rulebook, 99 out of 100 would be unacceptable. You know, forgetting to make some minor point in an otherwise flawless presentation, you'll beat yourself up endlessly. But the non-impostor, they still can set high standards for themselves, and they have a healthy drive to excel, but they don't feel shame when they fall short, as long as they tried their best. Other people who feel like impostors, their definition of impostor syndrome, and there's five of…