TC 289: Cafe Book Club – Presence Part 4 – I Don't Deserve to Be Here

In this chapter of Presence titled "I Don't Deserve to Be Here", Amy Cuddy explores the Impostor Phenomenon. Host Robin Masiewicz, Amy Frost, Dr. Kymn and Michelle explore this mind set that steals our power.If achieving presence requires us to be totally in tune with our truest feelings, beliefs, abilities, and values, then we certainly cannot be present when we feel like a fraud. Instead, we are discordant, frazzled, and utterly unconvincing. And just as presence is self-reinforcing, so, too, is feeling fake.Imposterism steals our power and suffocates our presence. If even you don't believe you should be here, how will you convince anyone else?Amy Cuddy discusses best selling author and Sci-Fi legend Neil Gaiman, winner of an amazing number of literary awards including the Newberry and Carnegie medals for The Graveyard Book, and the Hugo and Nebula awards to name just a few. Several of his books have been made into live-action movies (Stardust, which he also produced) and animated feature films such as Coraline, and the Neverwhere TV series. His works of short fiction include Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, and Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders. By any measure Neil Gaiman is an astounding success.