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... and tonight, I put out my post about (among other things): Reverse Imposter Syndrome!

Regular "imposter syndrome" is people who find themselves in elite company, and "suffer" from the nagging feeling that they're not good enough.

Reverse Imposter Syndrome is when you think you're good enough to be at an elite institution, but you're really not. cf. Google, Apple, Meta.

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Then there’s also the imposter syndrome that all the imposter syndrome talk makes you feel guilty about not actually feeling like an imposter. You begin to suspect that maybe you really are an imposter, because if you weren’t then you certainly ought to be feeling like one.

Don't forget Recursive Imposter Syndrome: Look at all those people, suffering from Imposter Syndrome. They're not like me, the real imposter.

And the even more important: pointer to Recursive Imposter Syndrome

Are you even good enough to have impostor syndrome?

In order to have imposter syndrome, you can’t know that you have imposter syndrome.

The word is overconfidence. We don't need to use 3 words to explain one.

Do you think this happens often? What about people with "Reverse Imposter Syndrome" who eventually get into the elite company?

This applies to the ones who are already in.

I do mention how they got in, in the first place.

Reminds me of the (all too often cited nowadays) Dunning Kruger effect [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

I do mention D-K, actually.

It's out. Getting 2 upvotes on /newest, as usual.

Make it 3. Enjoyed the write-up.

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