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Re: Impostoritis: A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition

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Post by gopher1 » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

gcb0 wrote: post #6

hadees wrote: post #2

I don't think it's just a woman's issue. I've struggled with this myself until recently when I got 3 out of the 4 jobs I applied to a couple weeks after getting laid off.

Yep. impostor syndrome never was associated with gender. She just picked the low hanging fruit. Impostor syndrome applies to everyone who still lacks close friends in a particular social occasion. So it's very common on all steam folks since most have social anxiety, hence take a long time to make close friends.

Can you elaborate on the relation between imposter syndrome and lacking close friends?

Re: Impostoritis: A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition

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Post by zwieback » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 6:01 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #9

Why does it seem like STEM grads disproportionately suffer more from impostor syndrome while business grads seem to disproportionately suffer less?

Probably the nature of the work - it's easier to feel like an impostor if success is primarily defined by detailed knowledge of the field. I suspect that in the business field you can't succeed unless you're comfortable portraying incomplete or speculative information as fact. Just guessing, though.

Re: Impostoritis: A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition

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Post by cryoshon » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #9

Why does it seem like STEM grads disproportionately suffer more from impostor syndrome while business grads seem to disproportionately suffer less?

Part of working in science is knowing that you only know a tiny sliver of your field. It's easy to get the idea that everyone else knows vastly more than you do.