You Are (Not) a Fraud: A Scientist's Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon

This is not an imposter syndrome book. This is the book that will convince you to ditch the term imposter syndrome forever...

YOU'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

Those people to whom you compare yourself are every bit as superior as you believe them to be. They belong there. They know more than you. Your achievements don't count. And you're just not that clever.

Why bother? Give up. Go home...before you get found out.

Sound familiar?

This is how you speak to yourself if you think you're going to be found out and thrown out of your workplace.

This is how you speak to yourself when you think you're a phoney...but all of the evidence says otherwise.

This is how you speak to yourself when you're suffering from the Imposter Phenomenon.

My own thoughts of the Imposter Phenomenon almost made me quit before I got started. I almost gave up on my career before there ever was one. I almost gave up on myself.

In You Are (Not) a Fraud, I invite you to come with me as I share some of the hidden data behind the Imposter Phenomenon. Come with me as I tell you the stories that can help you understand that it's NOT the Imposter 'Syndrome'!

We can all understand what true imposters are.

We can all understand how to be mindful of useless comparisons we make between ourselves and other people.

We can all understand how the Imposter Phenomenon might always be there...but it should never stop you doing exactly what you want to do.

Marc was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland.He completed his Masters in Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in 2011. In 2015, he completed his Carnegie Trust-sponsored PhD in Chemistry at Strathclyde. From 2015-16, Marc was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh. During that time, he was inducted into the SciFinder Future Leaders in Chemistry programme.In 2016, Marc won the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and rejoined the Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry at Strathclyde from 2017-20. This position was supported by GlaxoSmithKline, and he was thus the first Strathclyde-GSK Early Career Academic. In 2018, Marc was selected to participate in the Scottish Crucible leadership program, the Merck Innovation Cup, and was part of the Converge Challenge Entrepreneurship Competition Top 30. In 2020, Marc became a CPACT-supported Research Fellow and then Lecturer for Innovation in Education at the University of Bristol.Most recently, Marc was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, joining the Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry at Strathclyde in 2021.He holds a visiting lectureship at the University of Bristol, and a visiting Enterprise Fellowship in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde. In 2021, Marc completed Seth Godin's altMBA.Outside academia, Marc is the founder of the safety culture and accident readiness company Pre-Site Safety.His interests include physical organic chemistry, computer vision, cheminformatics, virtual reality, process safety, and the psychology of the imposter phenomenon.