If someone who has made it to university and cares about their studies is making a persistent error that most students can avoid, it suggests a systemic glitch.
Tag: imposter syndrome
When talking in seminars makes you feel like you don’t belong
Some workplaces and research cultures explicitly or implicitly run so that every conversation is actually a battle for airtime, and it’s common to try to sabotage other people’s chances. We should be working towards the exact opposite: energising, authentic, worthwhile, academic conversations. That’s what we love about getting together with our nerd pals.
Should I do it myself? Writing and delegation
What you need to do yourself to prepare a publication? This is one of the big shifts for people moving … More
When reading makes you feel like an imposter
What these students show is they see reading as an intelligence test. (To be fair, they probably learned this from school.) As a graduate student, they have been a ‘smart’ person all their life, but maybe now they are not smart, or not smart enough.
Your imposter syndrome is irrelevant
Okaaaay, so this is pretty provocative as a title, but it’s also true and can be massively liberating. I hope … More
