the root cause of most of our problems is that people can tell who is more competent than them but are threatened by this instead of trying to learn from them & lifting them up
The root cause of impostor syndrome is an unhelpful picture of what people at the top of society are really like. We feel like impostors not because we are uniquely flawed, but because we can’t imagine how equally flawed the elite must necessarily also be underneath their polished surfaces.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Unfortunately some folks take several decades to understand that your chief goal on a team is not to prove you’re smart every chance you get. And most of them will continue with this insanity anyway, citing something something incentives.
Shreyas Doshix.comi feel like I've seen 10 years worth of "omg, the high status people in charge / leadership etc have no idea what the fuck they're doing, this has cured my imposter syndrome" but not a corresponding increase in agency amongst the commentariat, which suggests to me that...
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