imposters syndrome and evading the fraud police
Another monday, another post. This week, the topic comes once again courtesy of twitter: imposters syndrome.
My remarks are brief: everyone, at some stage, feels like a fraud. At any moment, someone around you is afraid the fraud police are going to leap out and go “AHA! GOTCHA!” and cart them off to Fraud Prison in full view of everyone, who will forevermore know that they didn’t know what they were doing.
If you are feeling like an Academic Imposter, I have one thing to say to you: GOOD.
Actually, I have two things: Welcome to the club. If you are muddling along in a new job, or a new project, or a new position, or fumbling to make sense of a grants application or a submissions process or a PhD thesis, and you are feeling like an imposter, like you don’t know what you are doing, trust me. this is a good thing. It means you are pushing boundaries, uncovering novel ideas, learning new things. It’s the day you realize that it’s been a while since you felt like you were winging it that you need to start worrying.
So keep on winging it. Fake it ‘til you make it. Try on new faces, impose.
It’s the only way you’re going to get anything done.
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