JA WestenbergImposter syndrome is largely an affliction of the competent. Actual impostors seem to feel just fine...
Andrew Benedict-Nelson@Daojoan this is like the Westenberg Corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect
�wasnt dunning kruger not just autocorrelation, tho.
not saying this behavour of some people is not observable
Carlos SolísThey don't know what they don't know, and everyone is worse for it
Plantwizard@Daojoan See Donald Trump.
i think you mixed it with traitor
DigitalTaoist #resists@Plantwizard @utf_7 @Daojoan
My first thought too - just wanted to confirm that someone else had already pointed out Trump as a prime example 😂
My first thought too - just wanted to confirm that someone else had already pointed out Trump as a prime example 😂
Magnesium@Daojoan I hope I can remember this the next time I try to convey lessons I've learned from experience to peers through the crushing sound inside my brain that everyone will find flaws in the methods under which I did things, and that I'm a fraud to be crushed under the heels of giants that I thought I was riding on the shoulders of
Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦@Daojoan see also imposter imposters
Huubje
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evenreven@Daojoan We need to concentrate on stopping Blowhard Syndrome instead. https://xuhulk.tumblr.com/post/110549967516/stop-blowhard-syndrome
stefan (stefbun)@Daojoan I mean con-men and self-proclaimed "Alphas" have no conscionce and/or morale so kinda checks out.
Smart people are often humble since people are taught that "showing off" being smart is bad
Smart people are often humble since people are taught that "showing off" being smart is bad
¬ne'er-do-well 🐕@Daojoan c-c-competent ¬ne'er-do-well 🥹
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SanskritFritz@Daojoan
That is why it's called syndrome
That is why it's called syndrome
Neil Moffatt@Daojoan Seems to be. A friend I have chatted with years remains. afflicted - professor of psychology that never fails to respond to matters I raise.
It is a matter akin to great intelligence - the more you have the more you can sense what you do not know.
By contrast, ignorance can give blinkered confidence - personified in Trump.
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@Daojoan You need to have a certain amount of knowledge to know that you don't know enough for whatever you're trying to do. And nobody who is trying to achieve anything of significant complexity ever knows enough.
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