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impostor syndrome

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  • A nuisance that befalls many high-achieving women, wherein they chalk up their success to:
    “…luck, to being in the right place at the right time, to factors other than ability. They live in fear that eventually some significant person will discover that they are, indeed, intellectual impostors."

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk: We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller / We say to girls, “You can have ambition / But not too much / You should aim to be successful / But not too successful / Otherwise you will threaten the man.” It’s true. Women are much more likely to feel this way, because we’re taught to be modest and self-deprecating, to downplay our achievements for fear of looking arrogant or ungrateful, sipping pickle juice while our male counterparts are being praised for being bossed up.

    August 7, 2016