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@mr_sunglow It’s worth knowing first that Imposter Syndrome is a biological issue. Supporting the nervous system to manage it, then throwing yourself in at the “data lab”, gives you a much better shot at getting through those six months.

You’re right that the feed distorts it, but hearing “you’re doing well” rarely fixes it. When your stress response is running high, your brain doesn’t register what you’ve achieved as done, so the evidence is there and it doesn’t count. It’s a body response, not a lack of results.

@Obinna_Gates Having to keep reminding yourself makes sense. A room full of executives raises the perceived threat, and with your stress response running high, the brain doesn’t register what you already know as true. You do deserve to be there. Your body is just reading the room as risky.

@Swayam_Maharaj Advising someone else carries no personal risk, so your threat response stays quiet. Doing it yourself puts you on the line, the stress response fires, and your years of experience stop counting as proof. The skill hasn’t gone anywhere.

@CoachKingLeon That’s because it was never about the evidence. With the stress response running high, the brain doesn’t register a win as done, so a bigger win doesn’t change anything. It’s managed, not outgrown, which fits what you said about moving while it talks.

@Hilltech It’s biological, too. Under sustained stress your threat response stays elevated, and the prefrontal cortex, which handles decision making, is among the first areas to lose function. Rest, or active recovery, is what brings the response back down so that part can work again.

Meditation can help over time, but in the moment the quickest route is physical. Try the physiological sigh: inhale through the nose, take a second short sip of air on top, then a long slow exhale through the mouth. Repeat for about 90 seconds, and it lowers your arousal directly. We actually wrote about Sunday Night Anxiety in this week’s article, so feel free to have a read (it’s pinned) and let us know if you decide to try it.

Phone face down. Phone in another room. Phone switched off. So why does your mind keep checking it? That is the pain of Telepressure.

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Autonomy deficit. When nothing in your day was yours to decide, the need for control does not disappear. It waits for the hours after everyone else has gone to bed. A driver behind Revenge Bedtime Procrastination.

@hotghoulshi Congratulations, you earned it. It’s common for the good news to land and not feel real. When your stress response is running high, your brain can’t register a win as a win, so other people can see what you’ve done before you can.

@Jan_Coutinho The work was there all along. It just didn’t register as worth counting for him, and that’s how Imposter Syndrome operates. Someone asking the right questions is often what makes it visible.

@AdarshWritess That has a name, Sunday Night Anxiety, although some dub it the ‘Sunday scaries’. It’s actually a biological challenge.

@Femiforge It’s not just you. Your brain treats the week’s to-do list as a threat, and your body responds to it before the week has started. So you’re lying there resting while your body is getting ready for Monday.

@DIVINOTHEKING That pressure isn’t a character flaw. Messages from people you care about have been paired with something that mattered so many times that the alert alone triggers the urge to answer, even when you “barely have enough energy” left.

@FulfillmentPet1 It’s not strange, it’s physical. Your body starts getting ready for Monday while you’re still enjoying Sunday, so the heaviness can show up even when nothing is actually wrong yet.

@m_ashcroft Probably, yes. Your nervous system can’t tell a threat on a screen from a real one, so a feed full of conflict and alerts keeps the stress response firing when there’s no actual danger. People talk about regulation because they’re feeling the cost of it.

@onlypreneurs “Actually calm down” is easier said than done when in the thick of it. Switching focus to aspects of the situation you can control, however small, such as your body, is needed first.

@egesea009 Not stopped, but it can be managed. The first step is to downregulate the body’s response to the perceived threats so energy goes back to the prefrontal cortex (the logic center), and then your outputs can register as the successes they are.