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Re:Is there a fix for impostor syndrome? by eeZah7Ux on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:28AM (#16984982)
> Seems to me this is kind of the opposite of impostor syndrome [...] > you are divided between a suspicion that everyone else is an idiot [...]

Not at all: you can be painfully aware that 90% or even 99% of your peers are not that good and yet you are still light years away from being in the top 0.0001%. It's the same type of awareness.

Compare it with income only for the sake of having a numerical benchmark. With a salary of 32k$/year you are in the world top 1% yet you might feel you should be earning 100x that.

Re:Is there a fix for impostor syndrome? by scandox on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:56AM (#16985107)
In such a case, let's imagine a programmer in a department of 100 people. I take that case because to me Impostor syndrome relates to a peer group that one is actively engaged with - not to an abstraction.

Anyway, in this case, he believes that 98 people in the office are no good. 1 is amazingly good. He is both better than the 98 but much much worse than the 1. To my mind that is not impostor syndrome.

Perhaps I don't really understand the term.

Re:Is there a fix for impostor syndrome? by eeZah7Ux on Thursday May 03, 2018 @10:00AM (#16986082)
Re:Is there a fix for impostor syndrome? by scandox on Thursday May 03, 2018 @11:36AM (#16986925)
Always a good reminder but by that definition it seems insanely broad and also poorly named. I think I'll park my use of it.