impostor syndrome?

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<p>hey, who here thinks they have impostor syndrome?</p>

<p>i think i experience something similar, but not this specific phenomenon.</p>

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The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. It is not an officially recognized psychological disorder, but has been the subject of numerous books and articles by psychologists and educators. The term was coined by clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes in 1978.[1]</p>

<p>Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be.</p>

<p>The impostor syndrome, in which competent people find it impossible to believe in their own competence, can be viewed as complementary to the Dunning–Kruger effect, in which incompetent people find it impossible to believe in their own incompetence.

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<p>lol i kind of have this. i know im sufficiently smart, typical asian with good gpa and stuff. i’m just scared that i cannot succeed in ivies where everyone is a genius. don’t know if it’s this disease or if it’s just humility?</p>

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<p>When the orig studies came out, they said you could almost judge a person’s high level of achievement based on this modesty. The kid who thinks his 800 was a fluke or the scientist who says his amazing discovery was just luck. Lots of silicon valley sorts were like that. Kind of reassuring, in its own way.</p>

<p>Goes hand-in-hand with the idea that, if you really are superb, you just don’t need to be telling everyone- they’ll either get it or you’re not that great, after all.</p>

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<p>Perhaps I do. I have a 2400, am a national ap scholar and siemens regional finalist and I don’t think I’m particularly smart at all.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah you definitely have issues. Please, consider yourself smart, not for your sake, but for all the normal people who have Bs, and the people like me who THOUGHT they were smart (a 2250 SAT is nothing to sneeze at!) until they discovered CC.</p>

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<p>^yes x 1029423328473295879</p>

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<p>“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

  • Bertrand Russell</p>

<p>Be confident. Remember, it’s not cocky if you can back it up.</p>

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<p>i think it’s because smart people do hard stuff. i know i can kick most “normal people”'s butts at math but because i’m taking hard math classes i think i’m stupid every time i write up a problem set. you know what they say:</p>

<p>“what does it feel like to be the smartest person in the room?”
“it sucks. it means you’re in the wrong room.”</p>