Mitigating Gatekeeping and Impostor Syndrome with Emotional Intelligenceby@nas5w
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Mitigating Gatekeeping and Impostor Syndrome with Emotional Intelligence

by Nick Scialli8mFebruary 13th, 2019
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Gatekeeping is a term used colloquially to put down or reject someone’s knowledge on a subject, thereby discouraging his or her participation. Impostor syndrome can be thought of as self-gatekeeping: a “psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud’ In this article, I explore these two phenomena and their deleterious effects on new engineers. In addition to discussing these phenomena, I discuss a key technique for managing (and benefiting from) these and other forms of adversity you will face in this career: employing emotional intelligence.

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