The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women by Valerie Young

The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women by Valerie Young

Learn to take ownership of your success, overcome self-doubt, and banish the thought patterns that undermine your ability to feel-and act-as bright and capable as others alreadyknowyou are with this award-winning book by Valerie Young.

It's only because they like me. I was in the right place at the right time. I just work harder than the others. I don't deserve this. It's just a matter of time before I am found out. Someone must have made a terrible mistake.

If you are a working woman, chances are this inter-nal monologue sounds all too familiar. And you're not alone. From the high-achieving Ph.D. candidate convinced she's only been admitted to the program because of a clerical error to the senior executive who worries others will find out she's in way over her head, a shocking number of accomplished women in all ca-reer paths and at every level feel as though they are faking it-impostors in their own lives and careers.

While the impostor syndrome is not unique to women, women are more apt to agonize over tiny mistakes, see even constructive criticism as evi-dence of their shortcomings, and chalk up their accomplishments to luck rather than skill. They often unconsciously overcompensate with crippling perfec-tionism, overpreparation, maintaining a lower pro-file, withholding their talents and opinions, or never finishing important projects. When they do succeed, they think, Phew, I fooled 'em again.

An internationally known speaker, Valerie Young has devoted her career to understanding women's most deeply held beliefs about themselves and their success. In her decades of in-the-trenches research, she has uncovered the often surprising reasons why so many accomplished women experience this crushing self-doubt.

In The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women, Young gives these women the solution they have been seek-ing. Combining insightful analysis with effective ad-vice and anecdotes, she explains what the impostor syndrome is, why fraud fears are more common in women, and how you can recognize the way it mani-fests in your life.

Valerie Young, EdD, is an internationally recognized speaker, a leading authority on the impostor syndrome, and the author of The Hidden Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Competent People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in the Face of It, which is now available in five languages. Her career advice has been featured in a variety of business and popular magazines all over the world. Valerie has also been interviewed on numerous national and local radio programs in the United States. and Canada, as well as on New York's WPIX Channel 11 news and Yahoo.

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ISBN 13	9780307452719
ISBN 10	0307452719
Title	The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women
Author	Valerie Young
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2011-10-25
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Commended for Axiom Business Book Awards (Women/Minorities in Bus.) 2013
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.