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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Miller" data-source="post: 70090" data-attributes="member: 5063">Hey, First off, congrats on securing a VS in the first place! In terms of prep for my VSs, I mainly focussed on pre-planning some questions/ question ideas for each presentation after we got the schedule, brushed up on my commercial awareness and check for any new deals etc that were relevant as it had been quite a while since I wrote my app and knew that there would be new discussion points. Now the easy bit's out of the way... imposter syndrome. This is a really hard one, because every person is different. This is something which I don't really talk about (no particular reason) but affects me in most avenues of my life (certainly found it very challenging during the application process), especially as someone who is involved in a lot of leadership/ educational/ mentorship positions where others are relying on the things I say and do. This article goes over <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/imposter-syndrome-and-social-anxiety-disorder-4156469#coping" target="_blank">quite an extensive list of coping mechanisms.</a>As much as I would hate to be given this advice myself - and I do completely understand that it's easy to say and hard to do - is to bear in mind that, as a commercial law applicant who has made it as far as a VS, you've been judged completely objectively by people with no vested interest in you as being an exceptionally high calibre of candidate. Recruiters, interviewers etc in this industry are exceptionally good at what they do and can weed out ineptitude and inability without so much as breaking sweat; if you weren't capable of being there, you wouldn't be there. The only other 'coping mechanism' (honestly idk if you could even call it that) which I try to bear in mind is pretty much 'fake it till you make it' with confidence/ capability. You don't think you know what you're talking about? Okay, what would someone who knows what they're talking about say here? How would they say it? Copy it. Then, when you're okay copying it, copy it with a little something different/ more original to you. Add more and more originality until, hey, you're not copying/ faking any more. Similarly with confidence: don't feel confident? What does confidence look like? Fake it. Fake the smile, fake the "I'm totally confident' handshake, fake the chill body language even though you're anxious as hell inside. It's a bit like driving a car -sooner or later you'll stop having to think about when and how to change gears and it'll just be natural.</blockquote>

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