创业者如何克服“江湖骗子综合症”

    本文为与《创业者》杂志的合作内容。下文最初发表于Entrepreneur.com网站。

    在事业和生活中，创业者经常觉得自己像是个“骗子”，因为他们总是在尝试之前没有做过的事情。每一天，他们都在学习新技能，这很容易会让人觉得自己是个根本不合格的公司经营者。

    某个时刻，很多人都遭遇了“江湖骗子综合症”。他们固执地认为自己能力不足，是个失败者。尽管实情表明，他们有足够的能力，他们是成功者。

    自信的创业者会接受自身的不足。在能够做到之前，先假设自己可以做到。这正是一个学习的过程。

    一旦领导者学会接受这个过程，他们的“江湖骗子综合症”将不治而愈。在此，我们奉上10个诀窍，让为其所苦的创业者多一点自信，少一点烦恼。

    1. 认可胜利。

    自信的创业者会成就感满满。出现“骗子综合症”的原因就是无法认同自己的成功。相反，他们认为只是走运，侥幸成功，或者得益于意料之外的帮助。

    认可胜利需要诚实的品质。作为一家新公司的老板，你可能确实很幸运，或者得到了帮助，但你也做好了自己的工作。即便你只是在正确的时间出现在了正确的地方，但正是因为你的存在才带来了成功。如果没有你，成功就会变成泡影。

    2. 不要过于依赖外部认可

    外部认可只是一种辅助。要产生更好的自我感觉，你自己才是最重要的决定因素。

    如果其他人称赞你，你当然可以欣然接受，但不要过度依赖外部评价。

    3. 保持压力。

    你不能用更多的自我怀疑来战胜自我怀疑。有太多创业者通过有意降低对自己的要求来对抗“骗子综合症”。

    这类人会先说“噢，我没有那么好”或者“我可能会把事情搞砸”，然后才有胆量采取行动。甚至有人为了实现更低的预期，而故意破坏自身的表现。

    问题在于，通过假装自己是失败者来摆脱压力，只会让你变得更加失败。这是一个恶性循环。你一次次降低标准，直至你的所作所为将变得无关紧要。

    This post is in partnership with Entrepreneur. The article below was originally published at Entrepreneur.com.

    Entrepreneurs often feel like impostors at their businesses and in their lives because they’re constantly trying to do things they’ve never done before. Every day they’re learning new skills and this can prompt them to feeling like they’re not really qualified to be running their businesses.

    But many people experience impostor syndrome at some point. They persistently see themselves as inadequate or failures despite information indicating that their skills are sufficient or they’re successful.

    Confident entrepreneurs accept their inadequacies. They are simply faking it before they make it and that’s OK. It’s called learning.

    Once business leaders learn to accept this process, their imposter syndrome goes away. Here are 10 other tricks confident entrepreneurs can use to avoid impostor syndrome:

    1. Own the victory.

    Confident entrepreneurs own their accomplishments. The cause of imposter syndrome is an inability to internalize success. Instead, people think they got lucky, slipped in or benefit from an unusual amount of help.

    It takes integrity to own a victory. Sure, you may have been lucky or have had help as a new business owner, but you probably did your part, too. Even if you were just in the right place at the right time, you were still there. Without you, the victory wouldn’t exist.

    2. Don’t rely so much on external validation.

    External validation is a crutch. No one should have more power to make you feel better about yourself than you.

    Sure, it’s fine to feel good when other people compliment you and you should always accept external praise, but don’t overly rely on it.

    3. Keep the pressure on.

    You can’t fight self-doubt with more self-doubt. Too many entrepreneurs make the mistake of combating impostor syndrome by purposefully lowering the bar for themselves.

    These types say things like “Oh, I’m not that good” or “I’ll probably mess up” before daring to take a specific action. Some will even go as far as sabotaging their own performance to fulfill the lower expectations.

    The problem is that trying to take pressure off yourself by pretending to be more of a failure will make you more of a failure. It’s a pitiful cycle. You set the bar lower and lower each time until what you do doesn’t matter at all.