You're not the problem.
Imposter Syndrome & Bicycle Face Disease--a brilliant speech by Reshma Saujani to know about.
This commencement speech at Smith University by the brilliant Reshma Saujani reminds us that maladies like “Imposter Syndrome” and “Bicycle Face Disease” have been consistently created to keep women in their place when they begin to take action that messes with the status quo. They are made up constructs to keep women trying to fix something perceived as wrong or lacking about themselves instead of focusing on the sexism, racism, homophobia and transphobia that is baked into the system in the first place.
We are made to believe that there is something wrong with us and that it is our job to fix it.
It must be your fault if you haven’t jumped the gender pay gap.
You must not believe in yourself enough. Power pose your way to success!
The problems are systemic. Saujani reminds us that companies, not individual women, have the ability to make the gender pay gap vanish in minutes, but they don’t. She inspires us to stop thinking there is something wrong with ourselves and get busy working on fixing what is wrong with our world.
That’s the ultimate goal of giving yourself permission. I love everything about this speech. Spend 10 minutes listening to feel inspired and energetic about shedding your shoulds and pointing your efforts out into making a better world.
And make whatever face you need to while you do.
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