> Impostor syndrome is associated with overwork, with an overly keen focus on pleasing others, and with an almost desperate drive to constantly achieve more. W

> Impostor syndrome is associated with overwork, with an overly keen focus on pleasing others, and with an almost desperate drive to constantly achieve more. We know the wages have stagnated, we know there are fewer and fewer jobs, and stiffer competition. Sane people as a result, overwork, try to achieve more, and try to please superiors to get head. It's just survival instincts. When you're on a sinking Titanic, you're pretty stressed to get to be one of the people on one of the boats! The alternative is to get together with your buddies, face your fate and play some music together, while everyone else is scrambling. Since playing music (playing computer games in your mom's basement) is frowned upon, most people choose the 'try to make it' route. That route is stressful - especially when you KNOW in your heart, you shouldn't be on that boat. Knowing you shouldn't be on the boat, and yet trying to get on it, feels shitty. Yes, yes it does. Another way to look at it is, are we really on a sinking Titanic? Or are some fuckers hoarding money at our expense making it so? I don't know that people are intelligent enough to figure that one out, so it goes.