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... and tonight, I put out my post about (among other things): Reverse Imposter Syndrome! Regular "imposter syndrome" is people who find themselves in elite co
by AlbertCory 4y ago
... and tonight, I put out my post about (among other things): Reverse Imposter Syndrome!
Regular "imposter syndrome" is people who find themselves in elite company, and "suffer" from the nagging feeling that they're not good enough.
Reverse Imposter Syndrome is when you think you're good enough to be at an elite institution, but you're really not. cf. Google, Apple, Meta.
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoDon't forget Recursive Imposter Syndrome: Look at all those people, suffering from Imposter Syndrome. They're not like me, the real imposter.
- JoeyJoJoJr 4y agoIn order to have imposter syndrome, you can’t know that you have imposter syndrome.
- glogla 4y agoAre you even good enough to have impostor syndrome?
- precompute 4y agoAnd the even more important: pointer to Recursive Imposter Syndrome
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- LeftHandPath 4y agoReminds me of the (all too often cited nowadays) Dunning Kruger effect [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- AlbertCory 4y agoI do mention D-K, actually.
- AlbertCory 4y agoIt's out. Getting 2 upvotes on /newest, as usual.
- LeftHandPath 4y agoMake it 3. Enjoyed the write-up.
- layer8 4y agoThen there’s also the imposter syndrome that all the imposter syndrome talk makes you feel guilty about not actually feeling like an imposter. You begin to suspect that maybe you really are an imposter, because if you weren’t then you certainly ought to be feeling like one.
- missingrib 4y agoDo you think this happens often? What about people with "Reverse Imposter Syndrome" who eventually get into the elite company?
- AlbertCory 4y agoThis applies to the ones who are already in. I do mention how they got in, in the first place.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoThe word is overconfidence. We don't need to use 3 words to explain one.