Imposter Syndrome is that thing where you feel like you’ve presented yourself as someone who knows what they’re doing, but really you’re just blagging and pretending to know what’s going on, and that any minute the people around you will catch on that you have no idea what you’re doing and are just making it up as you go along.
In an academic setting, it’s always seemed to me to be fairly unimportant, because everybody’s kind of blagging when it comes to academics. Academics and blagging have so much natural overlap that there can never be any real consequences to making stuff up in the field of philosophy or law or art history or whatever. It’s kind of expected, and you can’t necessarily distinguish blagging from knowing in all that theoretical subject matter.
However, in the field of building houses…
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