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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
i 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...
Visakan Veerasamyx.comI’m learning that if you are competent enough and you ignore certain rules, people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don’t apply to you. People will talk about equality but what they respond to is power. And competence is a competent expression of power.
Mr. Possiblex.com