Advice for a young academic: imposter syndrome
A great deal has been written in the last few years about so-called „imposter syndrome“ – the feeling experienced by many young academics that somehow they don’t really belong in their new role as a lecturer and that somehow they should never have been allowed to make the step up from being a student. The fear is that you are not good enough, that you don’t deserve this, that you won’t cope and that you will in due course be found out and exposed. There are books about it. There’s a TED Talk about it. Seeing what has already been written makes me feel like an imposter even thinking about writing this post.
If you are in that situation I have two pieces of advice to get you started:
- Get used to it. We all feel that way. Welcome to academia.
- Don’t worry. You are not an imposter. You are as good…
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