<p>hey, who here thinks they have impostor syndrome?</p>
<p>i think i experience something similar, but not this specific phenomenon.</p>
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<p>lol i kind of have this. i know im sufficiently smart, typical asian with good gpa and stuff. i’m just scared that i cannot succeed in ivies where everyone is a genius. don’t know if it’s this disease or if it’s just humility?</p>
<p>When the orig studies came out, they said you could almost judge a person’s high level of achievement based on this modesty. The kid who thinks his 800 was a fluke or the scientist who says his amazing discovery was just luck. Lots of silicon valley sorts were like that. Kind of reassuring, in its own way.</p>
<p>Goes hand-in-hand with the idea that, if you really are superb, you just don’t need to be telling everyone- they’ll either get it or you’re not that great, after all.</p>
<p>Perhaps I do. I have a 2400, am a national ap scholar and siemens regional finalist and I don’t think I’m particularly smart at all.</p>
<p>^ Yeah you definitely have issues. Please, consider yourself smart, not for your sake, but for all the normal people who have Bs, and the people like me who THOUGHT they were smart (a 2250 SAT is nothing to sneeze at!) until they discovered CC.</p>
<p>^yes x 1029423328473295879</p>
<p>“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
- Bertrand Russell</p>
<p>Be confident. Remember, it’s not cocky if you can back it up.</p>
<p>i think it’s because smart people do hard stuff. i know i can kick most “normal people”'s butts at math but because i’m taking hard math classes i think i’m stupid every time i write up a problem set. you know what they say:</p>
<p>“what does it feel like to be the smartest person in the room?”
“it sucks. it means you’re in the wrong room.”</p>