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Dave Smith

Scott Galloway says it's actually good to have imposter syndrome: 'If you’re not in rooms you don't deserve to be in, you're not trying that hard'

Scott Galloway speaks in a TV interview (Credit: Jonathan Fickies—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Imposter syndrome doesn’t signal weakness—it signals you’re exactly where you should be. That’s the counterintuitive message from Scott Galloway, a NYU marketing professor and serial entrepreneur who has built and sold multiple companies for millions of dollars. In a recent episode of his podcast, The Prof G Pod, Galloway reframed one of professional life’s most common anxieties as evidence of ambition, not inadequacy.

Conventional wisdom tells us imposter syndrome is something you have to overcome. But Galloway sees it differently.

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