Re:We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impos...
by sametmax on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:32PM
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It's true, but culture is a much armful as it is helpful as a manual. Most cultures I met while traveling (a lot), including my own, have terrible effects on how we handle sex, success, responsability, feelings and growth.
Re:We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impos...
by drzaiusapelord on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:39PM
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That's opinion not fact. There's no "one way" to be human. People who think that are often hateful extremists. Viva variety. Most cultures get a lot right and culture, being what it is, is in constant flux and change.
Re:We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impos...
by sametmax on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @03:15AM
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This whole debate is people sharing opinions and not facts.
But give me a culture where people have a healthy reltionship with sex. Morality, religion, security, health, children educations, gender status... All major actual cultures screw it up massively in some way.
Sure we do, its called culture. My parents were immigrants so I got to see two systems compete, their native culture and US mainstream culture. There's a lot of info here on how to live, if anything its overwhelming.
I think the idea that we're all winging it on some certain level is pretty different from a feeling like an imposter. I don't feel like any kind of imposter in my day to day life.
If I do feel 'imposter syndrome' its at work and largely because we have, in the US, an anti-worker climate where we're expected to be instant experts on everything, especially if you're in tech. A realistic outlook on what staff can do doesn't benefit management as much, so they don't help dissuade the myth of the IT/dev superman. They'd rather you near burn-out trying to be a 5x multiplier than hire 5 more guys. We often talk about imposter syndrome at work, but rarely its principle driver. Its not "my teachers said I was smart and can do anything" but very deliberate policies that help businesses maximize profit at the expense of the wellbeing of their own staff.