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Just to give anecdotal evidence against your assertion. I'm French and I suffer from imposter syndrome. I think i really depends on circumstances. I work from
by nicolas_t 10y ago
Just to give anecdotal evidence against your assertion. I'm French and I suffer from imposter syndrome.
I think i really depends on circumstances. I work from home as a freelancer which means that rather than interacting with a lot of coworkers, I mostly read things professionally from people at the top of their game. This skews the perception I have in term of skills and means that I sometimes feel like an imposter.
I didn't have that problem when I was working in a company.
- weddpros 10y agoCan I ask you where you've read/heard about the imposter syndrome first? Also, I don't pretend we don't suffer the same symptoms, just that without a name to put on it, it's more bearable. Personally, I have a very hard time with compliments (I had to learn to say thank you to compliments, which make me think "bullshit" naturally). So I tend to believe I'm average, even when someone insists I'm not. That's not unlike imposter syndrome. Plus I do understand what you mean about reading stuff from/about brilliant people. But an imposter or a fraud? Nope... I just think I don't have enough self-comfidence or self-esteem, because "being a fraud" and "self imposter syndrome" meant nothing to me not long ago, plus these terms seem absurdly guilt-inducing to me. Living without this guilt definitely helps make progress in anything.
- sametmax 10y agoActually I found that naming it was a relieve for me. "Oh, some I'm not alone feeling that". The first time I read about it was actually not using the label "imposter syndrom" but in a book where the character describe himself as a child in an adult body walking among people wearing adult masks, and everybody knew, but nobody said anything to preserve everyone egos.