You are not a fraud: free yourself from impostor feelings

The definition of an impostor is someone who deceives others and pretends to be someone else for their own gain. Is this really you?

I thought not. But then why do so many of us experience impostor feelings at work, or even self-identify as having “really bad impostor syndrome”? If you know that you are not pretending to be someone else for fraudulent gain then it should be easy to shake off these feelings, but it rarely is.