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The feeling that you don’t belong wherever you are, because you think you’re not smart/good enough to be there. Comes with a fear that everyone will eventually discover that you don’t belong on the team.
I think it mostly happens in highly technical environments, where it can be hard to evaluate where exactly you stand in comparison with everybody else. Finding things you’re not good at is easy, finding everybody else’s skill level is hard, and so it’s very easy to get the impression that you suck, even if on the whole you’re comparable or better than other members.
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