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grugagag
22 days ago
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Procrastination and the fear of not being good eno...
What’s wrong with impostor syndrome? Perhaps overused term but that for a good reason, many people are battling the same insecurities while others are confident on hot air. Very few have a backing for being confident.
luckydata
22 days ago
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Because impostor syndrome was a term supposed to describe a medical phenomenon that proved not to exist. Around my parts we call that "bullshit".
grugagag
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And it was adopted to mean what we all know it means. The origin may be completely wrong but it got a meaning that is not too far off.
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