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>So no, it's not your fault.

How can you possibly have the arrogance to tell a stranger that their analysis of their own behavior is wrong based on a paragraph they wrote about themself? GP laid out, very clearly, the insight they had in dissecting their own imposter syndrome and found it was from an incomplete model of the world. In your rush to slag Google and assure GP they're a good, valued person, you seemed to completely miss their entire point, and along with it, the feeling of success that I assume they felt after having grown personally and professionally.



I think they are both wrong because they do "absolute" affirmation.

  > entirely my fault

  > So no, it's not your fault.
But each of them bring us valuable information based on a different point of view :

1- You can decrease the imposter syndrome if you are more aware your own strength and weakness and those of your co-workers.

2- Google's internal organisation can accentuate the imposter syndrome problem.

Both can be true at the same time.


"How could you possibly have the arrogance to tell a stranger..." I could say the same to you and I don't think we'd get anywhere. How could anyone say anything to anyone about anything, we're all strangers neh? The post was open for response so I don't think responding with disagreement is arrogant. Nor do I think that someone's own thought about themselves is correct just because it's their own. Know thyself is a pretty hard commandment to follow and a stranger is entitled to contribute their interpretation. Why are you so concerned about the well being of this individual? Or is it critique of the corporation that jimmied your loins? The irony in your name can't be ignored.




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