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posted by janrinok on Thursday November 05 2015, @07:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-used-to-be-an-astronaut dept.

Most people advance through their careers with legitimate training, and yet many professionals may still feel about as ill-qualified for their jobs as Demara was for his various "vocations."

Indeed, psychological scientists have explored the "impostor phenomenon," a term first coined in the 1970s to describe the intellectual and professional fraud that many high-achievers feel they're committing. Despite academic and career success, these individuals believe that others overestimate their abilities and will eventually discover their incompetence.

A team of Belgian psychological scientists recently set out to explore the impostor phenomenon (IP) more closely, and found that it correlated with specific personality, emotional, and behavioral traits. Professionals grappling with IP manifest high levels of maladaptive perfectionism and neuroticism, the researchers found. And those individuals tend to be relatively unhappy with their jobs.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @04:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @04:38PM (#258925)

    In reality, you're just seeing their facade, the same facade that we all put up.

    Not everyone puts up this "facade". Some people are genuinely honest and interested in what they do.

    Behind that facade, that super-powered person isn't any better that you are.

    We're definitely not all equal, and it's foolish to suggest otherwise.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05 2015, @08:09PM (#259054)

    We're definitely not all equal, and it's foolish to suggest otherwise.

    No, but most people who "got ahead" and seem to be superior and live great lives are morons that were lucky enough to be born into success - born into their wealth and connections, and thus able to insulate their lives from their mediocrity, ignorance, and idiocy.