 Okay, hello everyone, good morning and I think you all are feeling better after the coffee. Thanks for coming here. So today we're going to talk about imposter syndrome and unconscious bias training. Just to tell you I don't know why but I'm feeling imposter syndrome right now while talking in front of you all. So to start with, I will just go to the introduction part, who we are. So I'm Amita Sharma, I am a diversity advisor currently working in the DI team for Fedora and I'm the council member as well, ambassador from India. And I work for Red Hat as well as a senior quality engineer based in Pune, India. So I have my teammates from the diversity inclusion team, they're going to introduce themselves. Okay, so hi, I'm Yana, I come from Albania and I'm part of Hacker Space that we have there, Open Labs. Part of Fedora, I'm part of the ambassadors group for the EMEA region and also I'm part of different sub-projects like diversity and inclusion team, come-ups and sometimes I like to do other things when I have free time. And yeah, part of Fedora I like to contribute to other open source communities as well. And yeah, thank you. So hello, I'm B, I'm from India but right now I'm living in Germany. I'm a student here studying data analytics. In Fedora, I contribute to the community operations team mostly on data analytics stuff and I'm also involved with the diversity and inclusion team for their different initiatives. But and I'm also involved with other communities like Mozilla and yeah, yeah, and I'm also a Google Summer of Code mentor this year for Fedora. Hi, I'm Justin Florey, fast J Florey 7. I've been a Fedora contributor for the last couple of years. I mostly am active with the community operations team and the diversity and inclusion team and for all of us with this team, we're really excited about this workshop because it's an opportunity to kind of show some of our own biases that we bring into working in open source project communities and becoming more aware and conscious of those biases. Spoiler alert too, you'll find some more information coming up in a new or an upcoming Fedora podcast episode. So keep an eye out for the diversity and inclusion episode from Eduard on the Fedora podcast. So I just want to make a quick announcement. This entire this workshop is very interactive. I said this earlier, but we would really appreciate it if you sit along the center instead of being so distributed. And yeah, it would be really nice. Come on, come on from the tables. Yeah, exactly. See, I can also stand behind this desk and just hide. So I'm not doing that. Please come in the center, come in the front. So this is the agenda of the workshop we have. What is the imposter syndrome and unconscious bias? We're going to talk about it a little more in detail. We all know about the definition, aware about it, but am I audible? Okay. So we know about the definitions, of course, but we're going to go deeper about it. We're going to know more facts about it. And we will explore ourselves if there are any symptoms we have about these things or the people around us. What to expect from this workshop? There are lots of games we're going to play. So usually in the session or all of the sessions you are sitting at your place and just listening to one person. So this is not going to happen in this workshop. You need to move a little bit and increase the steps on your, whatever you are wearing, the MI band or whatever. So be ready for that. Be a little active. You had a coffee. Why do we need to talk about it in Fedora? So we had a fantastic talk from Rebecca and we know that the problems exist, right? So, but we always try to ignore them or just try to deny them. So that should not be the case. We should be aware about that these problems or issues exist. And that is why we are here, the open source communities and the people in the open source community who are the contributor. And they face these challenges or the issues. So that is why we would like to discuss these things here in this workshop. How can we manage such feelings in our day to day life? So we're going to give some tips and you will come to know after doing some of the activities about these tips. And I just quickly want to add that we are so glad that you are all here and that you want to be a part of this workshop. So we feel that you at least recognize this a little bit. But even if you don't, we have like a few slides to explain you what it is. Right, so this is for the heads up that not everything you try today will feel comfortable. So it is nothing to scare you, but the activities we're going to do, the things we would relate with, or the things which you will do and make you think about your past or the things that you have encountered in your life, you may become emotional about that or stuff like that. So there is nothing like that to hide or feel uncomfortable about it. Even if you do that, please feel free to take a moment and for yourself. Okay, so now we'll start the imposter syndrome workshop. It will be about an hour or so and yeah, yeah. So this program is divided into two parts. First we will talk about the imposter syndrome. We have few slides and then we have activity for the imposter syndrome and then we'll have a small break and then we'll talk about the unconscious bias, what it is all about and then we'll have the activities related to the unconscious bias. So what is exactly the imposter syndrome? Any of you would like to talk about it, what do you feel, what it is all about? I know the definition is there and you are reading very fast, but still deep inside, what do you think, what it is or? Maybe I show up hands, how many of you felt that you feel like you're faking it or like you don't deserve the opportunity that you've had just by showing up here? I felt like, why am I the person I'm here, why am I here, why am I this imposter, why am I this, I'm such a fake, where are they going to find out that I'm a fraud, I have no idea what I'm doing. So show up hands, I know for me it's been that way a lot of times. Exactly, so that is what it is, we all face, so this is an emotion, human emotion that you face it in your life once, twice or more than that or you are in that phase that you are feeling it, it's a feeling, it's natural. So nothing to hide about it and nothing to ashamed about it, right? So we're gonna learn about it, why activities more instead of just reading to the slides. And here is one picture in the next slide, which we liked a lot, that's why I put it in the slide and she would like to explain it. Yeah, so how many of you have ever felt something about this that you were talking about some topic with your friend or your coworker? And you said a few things but you still felt like you didn't know much about the issue. Maybe it was about politics or some international affairs or just music or anything and you felt like you were just going on and on about something you didn't know, just show your hands if you have ever felt like this. Just nodding along, kind of understand what's going on. Yeah, baby at flock a few times. Okay, so I have felt this a lot too. That's why I like this image. And I feel like this is a good representation of how imposter syndrome catches us in our daily lives. We don't realize it what's happening but we start feeling ashamed of ourselves or that we don't know enough stuff to talk about with other people. So this is just one of those imposter syndrome moments which I wanted to show you. Okay, so this picture says a lot. If you see, the people who are going through this phase of feeling that they think that they don't know much about the topic but the rest of the world is so accomplished they know that stuff, they are talking about it and they know everything and the moment you start feeling that I'm not very confident about yourself and that is the moment you start to stop even participating in the conversations. For example, there was a meeting last night I was in and there was a topic going on about containers and many people were talking about it and I was like I fell a little withdrawn from the discussion that I, oh my God, these are the geek people. They are talking something very rocket science and then the moment came. Okay, I also use the container and I can probably talk about a sentence or two and then I was not feeling very confident that I should speak about it or not and I was just thinking about it and then the other person just spoke about the same sentence which I was about to talk. So for that time period I was in this feeling. And this is the feeling which can come and go. This can be a phase where you are in for a longer time or this can be the thing which you have been facing your life long since your childhood because of some incidents. Yeah, especially if it's something like this, how many of you have ever felt like everybody else has their careers figured out, their life plan figured out, like they know they want to have babies, they want to get married or like they know what they want to do in their life till they're old but you just feel like you're just going through on a day-by-day basis, like you just know what you want to do for the next 24 hours or just like this week. This week I'm just completely going to concentrate on Flock and I don't know what I'm going to do after. Have you ever felt like this? So just show your hands if you feel like this before. So yeah, so this is another example of how imposter syndrome catches you when you are not aware of it and you feel like everybody has everything sorted out in their life, their life is very nice and they're just you know breezing through but I'm struggling with my daily efforts or with my tasks. So this is just a case of imposter syndrome, this happens with everyone. Like this is a short disclaimer, we will come to that later but don't feel worried, this happens with everyone, this is not just you and we will realize that in a few more slides. And to add to that is it is okay to be silly sometimes, it's okay to talk your mind and even if you don't feel like it is correct or not, it's okay to be silly. So you have to accept yourself how it is, you cannot have all the knowledge in the world of all the topics. So it's okay to not to know a few things. So you don't have to feel negative about it. So next slide, do you feel like you are faking it? I mean you are into a job which you have been doing since ages, I mean many years and then suddenly you start thinking okay, I'm no more good fit for this job, I'm just faking it and what if my boss figure it out, I will be kicked out of the job and then carrying that baggage and the fear almost every day about it. Do you think you can relate? Just show your hands quickly. So there are quite a few hands for all of these different examples of imposter syndrome. So we know that some of us are feeling it. So we are going to play a quick game so that we can identify when we get caught with those symptoms or I mean the game will help us realize what are these situations which can which lead us to feel feeling like an imposter. And also sometimes we see a person is very confident, sometimes overconfident and when she or he says that I'm feeling imposter syndrome or I'm facing this phase in my life, we say okay but you seem very confident even the overconfident sometimes. So this is the side defect of the imposter syndrome if the person deep inside feeling not very confident they tend to show these symptoms that they are very confident. I mean they start faking it so that is another side effect. So it's a game time so you have a paper which you and I is distributing and I'll hand over the mic to B to take it over now. So I hope you are all excited for this game have you ever played bingo before? Yeah. So it's like a bingo for imposter syndrome but we have a few modifications to the game. We will call out the statement and if you have ever felt like that before we want you to cross it out or if that statement applies to you you should cross it out and we will stop the game when we cover like a majority of these statements and after that we will just like do some introspecting and show off hands to see how other people feel too. So if you ever feel like uncomfortable being a part of this game just feel free to take a moment for yourself and I mean maybe you don't want to cross out something so ideally we would like you to be truthful to yourselves but if you don't feel like it we we encourage you to just you know take a moment. The prizes okay it's a secret we are not going to know. Okay so are you ready to start the game? Do you all have the paper for the bingo and a pen? I think yes. It's a very exciting game and it will let you think about yourself more this is the time that you think or introspect your own feelings so don't hesitate to play it honestly and I am also playing with you people. Yeah we are all also playing with you so you will know how we fare too in this game. Okay so is everyone ready? Cool. So the first statement is that I should feel lucky to have gotten into school the job the promotion etc. Have you ever felt like this? If you have felt like this just cross out the box. Yeah. So I'm repeating the statement I should feel lucky to have gotten into the school the job the promotion etc. Does anyone want me to repeat it or did you get it? Okay so yeah so the second statement is I always hold back when working in a group or a team. Always hold back when working in a group or a team. So if you have felt like this before or you feel like don't talk as much to the rest of the team until you are there. You don't voice your opinions. The communication part. The example I stated about the meeting. I was partially aware of the topic but still I was holding back in fact because I was doubting what my statement would be. So the question he asked is what is the meaning of the holding back here. So when you have doubt on yourself in spite of that you know about the topic but still you hold back to share your opinion and don't communicate. For example I have shared one example with you about the meeting where I was aware of the subject but I was holding back a little bit because I have seen people who are much more aware about the topic and I mean they developed that product. So I was a little holding back that I may or may not be correct about the statement I'm going to make. So that is the holding back here. Okay so the other statement have you ever said to yourself I should be able to do everything myself. So I don't need others to help me and I can just do this alone. So the statement is I should be able to do everything myself. Okay so the next one. Never tell someone you met in a bar you are an engineering math or science mayor. So here we just don't want to like it might be a bar or it might be a stranger like you never tell someone some stranger you met like on the first conversation that you had an engineering maths or science major. Or in your career. Because you feel probably that person would be better than you and you just don't say this in the beginning. Yeah so I'll explain you with an example that if you walk in the bar and you say that I am the doctor engineer or I am the modularity engineer and the person may start asking you the questions. Yeah. Okay and you have the fear what if I won't have the answers to his questions. So that is holding you back from disclosing your identity. Or if you feel like telling others that you are a science or engineering major is basically pigeonholing you into a concept or into a stereotype which you don't want to belong to. Okay so can we move. I would like to share the joke but I would you like to share the joke what was it I want to live. All right so please if you can. Okay so I was telling my neighbor that this is like I was a software engineer because I was the first time on my channel. Okay that was funny. Has it ever worked? Well not yet but you never know. Thanks for sharing it was very important. So the next one I should succeed at everything I do because you are afraid to fail and you think that you need to succeed on all the things that you do. I should succeed at everything I do. And just feel free to say bingo when you hit bingo. Okay Okay so moving on the next one is like I should be able to anticipate problems before they occur. If you have ever felt like this like if I should be able to anticipate problems before they occur. So this might be related to your work like some product crashing or some bugs or something or that maybe you could have coded it better to avoid that fault. If you have ever felt like this then just cross it out. Okay so moving on. I always share credit with others even if you did all the work. So the statement is always share credit with others even if you did all the work. So if you have ever done this maybe at your university or school projects yes school projects team projects where you know that your friends don't do nothing but you will put their names at credit for them. No bingos yet. Come on enjoy my plate. Okay so next one is always assume you will fail so you will not be disappointed when you do. I'm going to repeat it always assume you will fail so you will not be disappointed when you do. So this is basically about scholarships or like say job applications where you feel like you won't get the opportunity so you just set up a negative mindset for yourself. Okay so next one I always panic before a test presentation performance or interview. Performance evaluation. So I'm going to be truthful. I'm going to cross this out because I panicked before this workshop a lot. Yeah it says always so always always you have to follow it. Okay and okay so the next one is I was admitted or hired because of some kind of mistake. Yeah yeah. So horizontal vertical slanting but it should all be in a line you know. So the statement is I was admitted or hired because of some kind of mistake so maybe in your university you felt like you didn't deserve the chance to go to that university or in your job you felt like it was some kind of mistake to get that position maybe some glitch in the system or something so if you have ever felt like this just cross it out. Okay so no bingos. Next one I never never challenge yourself too much so the statement is that you never challenge yourself too much maybe at work or just in studies or in personal life or everything. Do you want to go next? The next one never show up men especially. Yeah never show up men especially so it basically means that you never talk back to men. I guess this relates more to women who feel like an imposter and they never talk back to other people so we are giving all the girls out there an extra chance if they've ever felt it you know to get ahead or really on we know you are near. I think it's probably okay if there is some flexibility that you know doesn't have to be always or never but if you have identified you felt this way before I think a lot of times not just like once and sometimes it was not every time it's not always it's not never but like most often it's still okay to cross the space. So then there are other points like yeah yeah the next one is I always apologize for mistakes or for not knowing something. I know I do especially with my family but okay so the next one is like I always assume when people are complimenting you that they are just being nice like you don't deserve it and they're just being nice and telling you that about the compliment that you deserved it or like you got it and so on. Are you sure there are no bingos yet? I'm purposefully trying to avoid my bingo here. What? I always assume when people are complimenting you they are just being nice. No straight lines, horizontal lines like slant lines somewhere there just okay so the next one is I never make declarative sentences statements like I know the answer so if you have like if you never confidently say that you know the solution or the answer or you never voice up even if you know it then most of the time yeah most of the time we say okay nobody wants it yeah nobody wants it we are just going to take it the next one is okay so you always attribute your accomplishments to something other than yourself cross it out people cross out things let us know okay so the one after that is you do not let people see you studying or working too hard do not let people see you studying or working too hard are you sure like we have one how come nobody else has one okay maybe this is like just the last two if you don't get a bingo in this nobody gets surprised like we leave it yeah we take the prize yeah so we have a special candy for you but okay we will give it to you later after the workshop nice you went because of this right so she how you feel about winning the bingo I feel happy anybody else who would like to share their experience while playing this game would like to share some example which are relevant to any of these statements we encourage you to come over here or speak about it so that we can learn from you and how did you overcome them I think you want to speak for sure Marie a big clap for Marie so Marie is the badges queen fidora badges queen so I did not get a bingo and there were actually things that you listed or named off that I've overcome and I didn't cross them off because I look at my life and I see what I'm doing and I'm proud of it and I've come to own that and when people ask me about my life I tell them proudly and people are always kind of impressed that I have a full-time job and I do this and I do my fine art and there's a lot that I want to do and accomplish and I guess I'm proud to say that I did not get bingo because thank you because I've overcome some of those feelings so like when I came to my first flock four years ago I think that I struggled with a lot more of these things but I realized that it's okay that I'm not an expert developer or engineer or I don't do ambassadors or anything else I'm here to do design and to contribute that knowledge to this community and I'm proud of that so thank you very much Marie for sharing your experience so that is what is the bottom line is you have to accept yourself you have to respect yourself first because you cannot know all the topics in the world you cannot be the expert of each and everything just be happy of doing what you want to do in your life and accept it accept yourself embrace your skills and respect yourself that is what it is all about and we are also going to do like a quick show of hands so you can count the number of things you crossed out and every thing every box you crossed out gets one point so we did about 15 to 20 statements so I'm just going to divide them into some buckets so if and if you are in that bucket range just you know raise your hand so if you crossed out less than five statements on this bingo just raise your hand okay yeah less than five okay so we have three people here who crossed out less than five if you crossed out five to ten statements on this bingo yes I guess most of us crossed out five to ten statements here and I guess that I mean it's equally balanced between everyone and if you crossed out more than ten statements on this bingo just raise their hand okay so I'm going to raise my hand too because I almost crossed out everything I said somehow but okay so yeah but I just want to let you know that you're not alone how like whatever level of imposter syndrome you feel you are like there are always other people who feel the same and so you're not alone who feels like this and I mean it might be because of your background or your experiences or something but I just want to let you know that there are also other people out there who feel the same way so we are quickly going to move on to our next slides and because we are running short of time for this workshop so after this we yeah we wanted to basically this game was to identify like how imposter syndrome affects us so how this different situation sabotage our like our career or our work or academics and we want you to be able to identify these situations from now on so that whenever something like this happens to you you can recognize it and just stop yourself and take a moment and think like this is just my imposter syndrome speaking I'm doubting myself I'm not going to do it I'm going to rest and I'm going to be confident because I've done so many things till now I have been here for like for me 23 years of my life or like and I'm moving on and I'm going to move on from this too and I'm going to keep on moving forward so this one example I would like to share I was going through the notes of B sorry I'm sharing it there were a lot lots pain notes notes written scribbling flow charts everything and in the corner of those notes it was written do it be bold and it was highlighted start with colors and everything so this is what you can do in your life just to boost your morale and confidence yeah and we also have some tips for how to tackle imposter syndrome later on just in a few slides in a few minutes you'll see them and you can actually use them in your daily life when you feel like imposter syndrome is affecting you yeah so yeah so this is just a quick game we are showing a few quotes on the screen can you identify who said these quotes I mean you can guess basic things even if you cannot see the name like so the quote is why would anyone want to see me again in a movie and I don't know how to act anyway so why am I doing this so when you see the word movie for example you make the connection with an actress or actor or actor yeah some maybe oscar winning actor yeah what no it's not mel Gibson you are very near the name is the same no it's not maybe it's similar not no it's the same she said maryl she said mel and I said the name okay yeah she heard it this was said by maryl strip and we all know how a great actor she is she has already won like eight golden globes and three academy awards and I'm pretty sure you have seen at least one movie with her in it so if not you need to go watch her movies go go go so yeah that was her and even though she's such a brilliant actor she said that quote so it's not just us but also famous people and celebrities who feel it yeah the successful people basically so this is another one and yeah so so I have written 11 books but each time I think oh oh they are going to find out now I've run a game on everybody and they are going to find me out no it's not George I don't mind no what no what no she's a poet memories I mean I said she take it all in could have been an answer but yeah this quote is not by her yeah she's a civil rights activist and also a Nobel laureate yes it it was said by Maya Angelo and Maya and she won a Nobel prize and yet she feels like this so I mean I can never imagine myself winning a Nobel prize and I try to reassure that it's just imposter syndrome talking that maybe I can win it but still she already won it and she feels like it so we just wanted to let you know that it's not just like people like you and me but also successful people who are like very ahead in their careers in the life and they still feel this so this is an important thing which is happening to most of us and we need to be able to identify like when this affects us and to recognize it and you know to effectively like handle it so that we can still be successful or like move forward in our lives yeah so uh just a quick question like do why do we feel like why do we feel this why do we feel like an imposter does anyone have any ideas okay why do we feel like an imposter because it depends on the situation or the circumstances we are in we have more geek or skilled people around us and we feel under confidence and we don't want to talk about the fact we know that is an example of when we encounter the imposter syndrome and sometimes we we have been failing you know continuously on some attempts and then our confidence is going low on every attempt then after that also we start feeling that okay I'm not the one who can accomplish this in my life so at that point we also feel started feeling like this sometimes there are like negative thoughts and the negative discussions coming to towards you from some people and you you know that they are false but still they are impacting your unconscious mind and that is how you start feeling negative about yourself so these are a few points Marie want to talk a little bit more walk so something that so something that I feel and I think other people might identify with as well like starting as a youth like you see maybe an older successful person like you're young maybe you're seven you're eight you're 12 and you think to yourself that person has it all together they have a career they have a life and you continue on and you get those things but your mind never really changes you're still with your own mind and like you feel like there should be this moment where you're like I've made it I've I've done it all or I've accomplished these things but you're still you're still that same person so part of you like hold on or me part of me hold on to that feeling that I haven't accomplished that thing yet but I think in reality there's not going to be that epiphany moment there might be a moment where you feel the success or you feel an accomplishment or but you're still in that same mind that you've had your whole life I mean I don't know if anyone else feels that way but I do yes absolutely and one of the point which is which you might agree or not but I'll give you the example to back that up your physical parents also comes into the picture sometimes for example I love dancing a lot my friend knows how much I love dancing but I have never ever participated in any dance competition during my school or college days because I think I look bulky and if I dance on the stage people will judge me and I it'll look awkward or bad but but when I started doing it after a long long long time I mean in the Red Hat Pune office we have the opportunity to do dance on the stage just show show it off to people the number of compliments I got even the people who saw me dancing I mean they can tell that I dance well so these kind of things small things can hold you back and I not today I regret that that I I never participated in any any dance competition during my school or college why I have not done that before so there is also a category where you you feel like your physical appearance can come in between your success so we don't have a lot of time so I will say them a bit very fast and Justin wants to skip the slides so I don't want to say again all the things that we said but we want to emphasize that I mean we we are not alone in this so and it's okay if we fail or it's okay even to suck because in this way we will learn from our mistakes and we will be better so we have let's say two kind of tips when you suck at something but gradually improve two things can happen right so you know what being awful at something really feels like and you realize that you do have a talent or a perseverance and this builds confidence at you so have you ever heard of the quote like failures are the stepping stone to success so it's like suppose you applied for a job maybe you didn't get that job but you got another better job because you had that interview you practiced there you networked with other people there and they recommended you to a better position which might have been a better fit for you so we just want you to know that it's okay to fail that you might fail a lot of times everybody fails a lot of times but still like it will teach you something and you should take that as a learning opportunity it will teach you about hard work and it will teach you other aspects maybe and you will realize that you can keep going on and on so it will just build your perseverance yeah so we just this is a last like we have some tips to tackle imposter syndrome so with the game I hope we taught you a little bit about situations where you can identify imposter syndrome and these are a few tips to tackle it if you have ever if you ever feel like imposter syndrome is creeping up on you or like you feel like your imposter syndrome is acting up again before say a big opportunity or something so you can so the first one is like you should keep a journal so I don't know how many people actually do this but I recently tried it a little bit and it can be anything like some small points about your day about what you did or like how you felt so this will help you basically identify maybe imposter syndrome situations or like you might write about the challenges you faced and maybe later on after you a few days you realize that maybe it was wasn't big as a failure as you thought it would be I agree that keeping a journal will help you a lot because even if you are in a job and after six months or one year you are assessed in that job for the appraisal I never used to maintain a journal but I have been done for a year and every I'm I don't think there is any human who can remember everything you do for one last year then my manager suggested me to keep a journal of what the things you have I've been doing and I was amazed to look at that the points the number of points I have written for myself for that year which I have done which I would never have been able to remember if we I have not written them in a journal and I think also one thing to note there too is after you do it for a while you'll go back and you'll read something you wrote you'll be like you'll look back and you'll be like wow did I really think that way or like wow I was so silly of me to think that I couldn't do this thing and you'll look back you know a year in hindsight and realize that whatever these challenges or these things that you were going through or the things that you were trying to accomplish were they'll feel like you'll feel silly or you'll feel it'll be it'll be a funny experience just to go back and read and be like wow like that's how I was thinking even just like a year ago and see how things have changed for yourself yeah and another one I want to quickly emphasize is that maybe you should build like a positive community around you you can have a group of friends who discuss like with whom you discuss challenges you faced recently or you discuss about your work or just like personal life so basically build a professional support network and you can ask them for advice or just you know talk to them so that you know that they are also going through similar experiences or they have also faced these kind of situations sometimes in their life and that will just help you keep moving forward so yeah and another another thing we wanted to say was that and this is very important like you have to recognize that failure is a part of learning process so I don't think I can emphasis this enough so I know it's tough I have been there myself I have failed multiple times in I have applied for so many scholarships and I'm not sure like I have I got maybe one or two so but still it's a learning process with every application I learned something new about myself about what I'm doing and that I'm actually contributing something here in Fedora or at my university and I'm doing something good even though it's a bit even it's if it's little or something yeah so I just want to quickly go through this and so the first one is like keep a journal second one is you set some goals for yourself so maybe you can take up running just set a goal that I will run one kilometer every day and when you do that you feel a sense of accomplishment like you did something small already and you do it consistently so it will help you you know feel better about yourself that you are already doing this much and it will create that positive energy into your work or like personal life and the third one is what we already talked about like build a professional support network it can be professional or it can be a group of friends and that can also help you get like by 360 degrees we mean like it can help you get diverse feedback so you will know different opinions from different people about what they are going through and you will know different perspectives about the same thing which you might not have thought before update your CV you have many more accomplishments than you think you have do not underestimate yourself in your resume write it all there maybe they can go through it they can read it it's but you have to put yourself out there and recognize that you have done it all and be proud about it the next one is get a coach it can be your friend or some peer or maybe like somebody yeah some mentor or some senior from your work or university someone it's just someone who has gone through the same challenges or like who can guide you through the process we already talked about recognize learning and failure are okay and yeah keep a positive feedback file it can be your journal just write that just write something simple like i'm glad i did this today like this is one thing i did today and i'm very happy about it or something simple like that and it will help you reinforce positivity in your life the next one is do things outside of work that make you feel good so basically take up hobbies like we said you can set some small goals and try to achieve that and the last one is like yeah this is very important that you say it out loud to someone you trust like that you talk about your imposter syndrome so the first step to tackling imposter syndrome is trying to identify it and the next one is like saying it like recognizing it and talking to people that that this is happening so that you learn how they're doing like if they're feeling the same or like how they're tackling it and what they're doing about it or so they'll call you out when you are feeling like an imposter but you're really you really are okay so these are a few tips from us and that is the end of this imposter syndrome workshop we will have the unconscious bias and training workshop after this and yeah if you thanks a lot for being here and if you have any questions just let us know now we will have we plan to have a five minute break which might be a little bit shorter because we are running a little bit out of time so it might be a two minute break but if you want to go out and grab some water or coffee or just feel free to do that does anyone have any questions so hey I found out that it doesn't really help me to know that other people feel the same thing feeling imposter syndrome because I like that well they just have this syndrome but they're still way better than I am and I shouldn't be here so it doesn't really help me to know that what helped me is a video that I saw once on the internet I don't even remember that it was kind of popular there was this guy dancing at the music festival it was on the hilltop and he was dancing in a crazy manner all alone on the on the sign there were people sitting and it was long like four five minutes and then there's another person who comes and join him and and dance in a crazy manner too and of course 30 seconds later there's like a crowd of people joining them and all dancing in a crazy manner together so what I learned is yeah exactly so I learned it's it's very important to have leaders and to have people who who do this crazy thing but it's extremely important to have the number two that's the person who joins them and who creates the whole movement so in a in a in a world where everybody is pushing you to be a leader and all that I think it's very important to not be the leader but be the second person who's going to create this movement and push and help me think forwards so I don't really strive to like be better than everybody as I used to do that well both my parents are teachers so I was kind of pushed in that way but yeah so I think it's also important to like not try to be the best at everything that's all thanks a lot okay so we are going to have a quick break a few minutes and then we'll start the next unconscious bias training workshop thank you 32 yeah and we have a lot of games planned there too so we excited more prizes for you if you like you're welcome to a really suck and it's not just like in your head do other people try to say to you that you really really suck like more than one person nice see this is a posture syndrome well you get stuck sometimes but not more than if you're else yeah I mean if you're really really suck they will say to you like you really really suck and sometimes