"Not Fooling Anyone: The Dubious Rise of Imposter Syndrome" by Leslie Jamison. The New Yorker pgs 26-32
"Imposter Syndrome" has become part of the pedagogical lexicon, and it's a feeling Pauline Clance knows all too well. Clance and her colleague, Suzanne Imes, came up with the term to describe a feeling of intellectual phoniness. This article relates the history of this idea, from its inception in the 70's through today. It seems success is not the "fix" for imposter syndrome, and authors like Maya Angelou and Neil Gaiman are not immune.
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