Weird, this seems so common. I would guess that most of the people who feel like frauds, actually are to some extent. The impostor syndrome concept is so popul

Weird, this seems so common. I would guess that most of the people who feel like frauds, actually are to some extent. The impostor syndrome concept is so popular because people want to believe it. It provides a simple black-and-white answer: I deserve my success, the unpleasant emotions in the back of my head are just the result of impostor syndrome, totally normal. But in fact, success is usually the result of both ability and luck. Successful people have above-average ability and luck. So from the point of view of a typical successful person, most equally-able peers are less successful.