When haunted by feelings of self-doubt, if you focus on negative attributes—things you have done wrong, mistakes you have made, skills and abilities you don’t possess—and respond to those feelings by telling yourself that you’re indeed a fraud, then that negativity becomes embedded in your brain. The more you adopt self-sabotage behaviors to deal with your feelings of self-doubt, the stronger those connections get. But you know what’s the good news? Your brain has this amazing abili...
