164. Do You Have Impostor Syndrome?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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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?

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0:00.0	If nobody knows what they're doing, then I might as well just run full speed ahead.
0:07.4	I'm Angela Duckworth.
0:09.8	I'm Mike Mon.
0:10.8	And you're listening to no stupid questions.
0:14.2	Today on the show, do you have imposter syndrome?
0:18.4	God, I am overrated.
0:19.8	People are going to find me out.
0:30.9	Mike, we got this email from this.
0:33.4	I want to call them adorable listener.
0:36.2	And they signed the note anonymous struggling postdoc.
0:39.8	OK, if I read it to you.
0:41.1	Oh, gosh.
0:42.4	Yes.
0:42.9	So it just makes me like sad for them already.
0:45.0	It's like, no.
0:45.9	Go give that person a hug.
0:48.4	You'll want to do so even more after I read you what they wrote.
0:51.4	OK, I am a research associate at one of the R1 universities.
0:56.0	However, I constantly struggle with the feeling of being incompetent or the so-called imposter
1:02.4	syndrome.
1:03.6	I frequently question my ability to both perform future research and lead a research group.
1:08.8	My questions are, is the imposter syndrome real?
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