<story><title>Healthy Self-Doubt</title><url>https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>Imposter syndrome such a popular thing to belive in because actually most people really do suck at their jobs.&lt;p&gt;I see a similar sentiment all the time where people say things along the lines of &amp;quot;Nobody really feels like an adult, we are all just muddling through&amp;quot; etc etc.&lt;p&gt;Actually no, some of us actually have our shit sorted out and are actual adults.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bArray</author><text>&amp;gt; [..] most people really do suck at their jobs.&lt;p&gt;If fact, 50% of people perform below average! 50% of the population also have below average IQ.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Actually no, some of us actually have our shit sorted out&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; and are actual adults.&lt;p&gt;I believe that everybody has an &amp;quot;inner child&amp;quot;, but most functioning adults have built layers around that inner self to enhance their behaviour to that of what we externally perceive as an &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Proof that most people still have that inner child can be observed in some edge cases, such as under the influence of drugs, sleep&amp;#x2F;energy deprived, some mental deterioration conditions such as dementia - and many others. I think sometimes we see this too in viral videos where people behave strangely when presented in an unusual scenario. The mind just seems to go into a &amp;quot;default&amp;quot; mode.&lt;p&gt;I think for the most part, people generally run on auto-pilot. Like the so-called &amp;quot;muscle memory&amp;quot; for athletes, I believe something similar exists for most tasks a person completes day-to-day. Human behaviour more generally is likely doing this.&lt;p&gt;To that extent, is this seeming lack of adult-like behaviour simply a person that needs to relearn this &amp;quot;outer shell&amp;quot;? (Assuming they are also capable of doing so.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Healthy Self-Doubt</title><url>https://nerdygirl.com/2020/07/02/healthy-self-doubt/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Negitivefrags</author><text>Imposter syndrome such a popular thing to belive in because actually most people really do suck at their jobs.&lt;p&gt;I see a similar sentiment all the time where people say things along the lines of &amp;quot;Nobody really feels like an adult, we are all just muddling through&amp;quot; etc etc.&lt;p&gt;Actually no, some of us actually have our shit sorted out and are actual adults.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MaxBarraclough</author><text>&amp;gt; Imposter syndrome such a popular thing to belive in because actually most people really do suck at their jobs.&lt;p&gt;The question then is whether there&amp;#x27;s a correlation between professional confidence and job performance.</text></comment>