Like many, I’ve struggled with self-doubt throughout my life. In college, every time I took an exam, I feared that I’d failed. And every time I didn’t embarrass myself or even did well, I believed that I’d fooled my professors. I later learned that this phenomenon is called the impostor syndrome,26 and while both women and men feel it, women tend to experience it more intensely. Nearly two decades later, after seeing this same self-doubt hold back so many women at work, I gave a TED talk that encouraged women to “sit at the table.”27 This talk became the basis for my book Lean In. Researching
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