Anyone else have crippling imposter syndrome with math…
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Anyone else have crippling imposter syndrome with math?
Yup, just as the title says
For context I consider myself to be quite good at math. It's kind of my "thing". Issue is I feel like a fraud all the time. I don't really know how to precisely pinpoint when exactly that happens (like under what scenario) but I feel like the entire thing about me being (relatively) good is a huge lie I somehow managed to guise and fool everyone with
Thing is, I'm aware of just how much shit I'm ignorant about. There is so so so many things I've seen and realized I know nothing.
Every time I contribtue to the math discord server I feel guilty because it feels like I'm lying through my teeth and I'm actually underqualified, even though I probably am not (in context). I often feel stupid searching shit up that feels like it "should" be obvious or I "should've" guessed that or it was "too trivial and I needed to just sit down and work on it for 10 minutes"
After I'm done reading about something I feel bad for how long I took even though it's a reasonable amount of time (my mind tends to be extremely skeptical even of basic facts so it's very thorough when reading new material)
Anyways, all in all, not a pleasant experience. Don't know if me calling myself "good" at math is cope or a lie or the guilt is all in my head. Despite this I still love math and I'm practically obsessed with it lol
#science
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Yup, just as the title says
For context I consider myself to be quite good at math. It's kind of my "thing". Issue is I feel like a fraud all the time. I don't really know how to precisely pinpoint when exactly that happens (like under what scenario) but I feel like the entire thing about me being (relatively) good is a huge lie I somehow managed to guise and fool everyone with
Thing is, I'm aware of just how much shit I'm ignorant about. There is so so so many things I've seen and realized I know nothing.
Every time I contribtue to the math discord server I feel guilty because it feels like I'm lying through my teeth and I'm actually underqualified, even though I probably am not (in context). I often feel stupid searching shit up that feels like it "should" be obvious or I "should've" guessed that or it was "too trivial and I needed to just sit down and work on it for 10 minutes"
After I'm done reading about something I feel bad for how long I took even though it's a reasonable amount of time (my mind tends to be extremely skeptical even of basic facts so it's very thorough when reading new material)
Anyways, all in all, not a pleasant experience. Don't know if me calling myself "good" at math is cope or a lie or the guilt is all in my head. Despite this I still love math and I'm practically obsessed with it lol
#science
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