This reminds me of my favorite joke about impostor syndrome. A young grad student is suffering from a bout of impostor syndrome. One day, the student (after w

This reminds me of my favorite joke about impostor syndrome. A young grad student is suffering from a bout of impostor syndrome. One day, the student (after weeks of mustering up the required courage) walks into their professor's office. "Professor, may I ask you a question?" says the grad student. "Of course" says the professor, barely looking up from their papers. "What do you think about impostor syndrome? I...hear that most grad students have it at some point." "Balderdash! I can tell you the vast majority of students here do not have impostor syndrome!" says the professor. "Really?" "Of course. For it to be impostor syndrome, they'd actually have to be good"