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You can be entirely competent for a role and do it successfully while still feeling like you're missing fundamental knowledge you won't ever need to accomplish
by aulin 5y ago
You can be entirely competent for a role and do it successfully while still feeling like you're missing fundamental knowledge you won't ever need to accomplish your job but that it's commonly perceived as a requisite. That can generate anxiety as you believe someone will at some point discover what you perceive as ignorance.
- crtasm 5y agoSure, but that is not imposter syndrome.
- aulin 5y agoDon't know, I'm still not convinced. The term deals more with the outcome, feeling like a fraud while being perfectly capable of fulfilling a role, than the reasons that could spawn those feelings. In my opinion feeling you lack knowledge you don't really need could be one of those reasons. Another could be you come from a different background than your peers and you feel somewhat inferior for being atypical.