Does anyone really know what they’re doing? How do we reward the competent and not the confident? And what’s wrong with using TikTok for research?
If nobody knows what they're doing, then I might as well just run full speed ahead.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Mike Mann, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Do you have imposter syndrome?
God, I am overrated.
People are gonna find me out.
Mike, we got this email from this.
I want to call them adorable listener and they signed the note, anonymous struggling postdoc.
Okay if I read it to you?
Oh gosh, yes, I know.
It just makes me, like, sad for them already.
I know.
Go give that person a hug.
You'll want to do so even more after I read you what they wrote.
Okay.
I am a research associate at one of the r1 universities.
However, I constantly struggle with the feeling of being incompetent or the so called impossible imposter syndrome.
I frequently question my ability to both perform future research and lead a research group.
My questions are, is the imposter syndrome real?