I don't think I've ever had impostor syndrome. I'm like hi it's my first day lemme interrupt this VP in a meeting real quick
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
prevalence of IS scans as extremely fake. Extraordinary uptick suggests something. Perhaps too many people are doing fake work to begin with and its rly abt coping with that, or feeling that disconnect (outside prestige of field vs inside reality), than actually impostor-feeling.pic.twitter.com/JEwRLlYEPe
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Replying to @simonsarris @sonyasupposedly
In other words "Am I an impostor [and not actually good at this]?" seems much less likely to me than "Oh shit, are we all imposters, this entire line of work is phony, [and now I need to cope so lets find some medicalized language]."pic.twitter.com/xnxzIFcY3T
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As a STEM grad student, it’s a feeling of “I’m so hopelessly behind in basic knowledge and have no insight in the problems I study and I’ll never make a meaningful contribution to my field, in contrast to the other students and professors who make progress with ease”
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That just sounds like realizing scope The original definition involved people who had won grants, awards, etc and still did not really recognize themselves as award winners. This definition makes a lot of sense if the awards, honors, papers, projects, etc are increasingly fake
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Every award process I have ever been involved in was fake. It's why I don't do them any more, and I stopped way before the post-2016 insanity. The occam's razor on imposter syndrome is "maybe most of these people really are bad at their jobs, but so is everyone else, and we
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @simonsarris and
just muddle by for a while until we can't any more," but no popular treatment of the subject seems to be able to even conceive of this idea.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @simonsarris and
I'm convinced at least part of it is the fact that the internet forces you to compare yourself to the personas people create and put online. Similar to the way social media causes depression because you compare your mediocre life to the fake lives people construct on facebook.
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Replying to @jeremy_bowyer @simonsarris and
No, because this would mean that most people are good at their jobs, just not elite. That is plainly false in just about any field to which you put a magnifying glass. The proof that most jobs are fake is that most people are bad at what those jobs are supposed to accomplish;
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if the jobs were not fake, it would matter that the people doing them were bad, and this would have to be rectified in some way.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @jeremy_bowyer and
Is that true, though? I know lots of actual, not fake jobs filled by incompetent people. Think rural hospitals. People die as a result, yet the incompetent people are still there. Most of them for decades.
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Replying to @FriedrichTwo @Jonathan_Blow and
Yes, there are fake jobs. But, there are also real jobs manned by incompetents who get to keep their jobs through things like nepotism, befriending the boss, etc.
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