The Imposter Syndrome is often discussed as one of the biggest problems that hold people back from achieving their full potential as scientists. At the heart of this is the myth that to be successful you need to be almost omnipotent and to have gone from success to success without having ever made a mistake or experienced failure. In this talk Professor Tom Welton, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperial College London, will give a warts-and-all presentation of his career to show you just how wrong this myth is.