Dr Valerie Young is an expert on imposter syndrome in the workplace. She suggests that there’s an important characteristic that everyone who experiences this self-doubt shares:

“People who feel like impostors have unsustainably high self-expectations around competence.  No one likes to fail, but impostors experience shame when they fail.”

I like to think that there is no shame in failing, or even in saying you were wrong.

The shame, surely, is in never trying.