Barbara Corcoran says every successful person she knows has imposter syndrome: 'That's what drives them'

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Barbara Corcoran says every successful person she knows has imposter syndrome: 'That's what drives them' (via CNBCMakeIt)

Christopher Willard | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty ImagesInstead, she wants to work with people who have ideas and insecurities — because someone who knows what they don't know is more likely to succeed than someone who thinks they have all the answers.

Corcoran, an entrepreneur and longtime investor on ABC's "Shark Tank," cited herself an example. Despite selling her real estate firm The Corcoran Group for, she still sometimes wonders if the deal was "a fluke, a lucky break," she said. "I look for a [competitor] who's mostly insecure, because I know I've got myself a winner," Corcoran said. "They have the ambition. They're going to work twice as hard, which, I think, is the great upside to feeling like you're an impostor."

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