1/ Imposture syndrome and illusory superiority are more intertwined than people (well, I, at least) generally recognize.
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2/ People I know vacillate constantly between the two. Illusory superiority is extremely useful in that it allows you to attempt and often succeed in doing things you're currently incapable of doing.
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3/ The imposture syndrome kicks in when you stop after succeeding on the task you gave yourself and think, "wow, I did that, but it was really hard — surely other people don't struggle this much!"
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4/ And, sometimes, they don't. There's always going to be people far more skilled at you. But, since the visibly successful are generally the best at and known for success they've publicly shared, you're prone to drawing very bad inferences and making even worse comparisons.
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5/ Like, if I were to be honest with myself, I believe I'm more prone to and affected by Dunning–Kruger than most. For semi-fucked up reasons, I've been in a position privileged enough to allow me to pursue many things and find out, "oh, yea, I can do this."
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6/ But, lately, I've been realizing that I think I need to fuse the two states back together, at least partially. I need to harness, "yes, I *can* do this but that person can do it better and what is it, exactly, that I really care about?"
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7/ I want to move towards building things with much longer time horizons. And to make success arrive sooner in those ventures — or, really, to make them more likely to arrive at all — I need much more constant, accurate, and carefully-considered self-assessment.
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Replying to @generativist
This is great! You might enjoy "Drama of the Gifted Child," which looks at a similar (and, at least in my case, related) duality between grandiosity and depression
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