Timeline for How should I deal with becoming discouraged as a graduate student?
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| Nov 5 at 7:30 | comment | added | Aru Ray | 12 years on, I still periodically return to read this, thanks for writing such an insightful answer! | |
| Dec 8, 2016 at 6:13 | comment | added | Byte Lab | This is the best answer I've ever read on any stack X site. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 7:51 | comment | added | Name | +1000 ... sometimes banging my head against one wall actually makes one of the other walls weaker... | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 0:23 | comment | added | BCLC | @user124384 I think "I've just tricked my way into this position and now that I can't figure this out, everyone's going to find out that I've actually been an idiot all this time." properly describes the instance here. The hypothetical person is in a particular position (in terms of professional distance, like having done a certain amount in his/her professional life), feeling that he/she has tricked his/her way into such position. | |
| S Apr 30, 2015 at 17:33 | history | suggested | starsplusplus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added a link to imposter syndrome in the question itself
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| Apr 18, 2015 at 14:10 | comment | added | Pandora | This is an awesome answer, and a great analogy (and there aren't many things I like better than analogies :) ). | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 1:31 | comment | added | user124384 | I could be wrong, but I don't feel that this is a proper instance of imposter syndrome. The fact is, if I were smart enough to have figured something out that I have not yet figured out, I would be smarter. The way I understand it, imposter syndromer would be more like, "I've just tricked my way into this position and now that I can't figure this out, everyone's going to find out that I've actually been an idiot all this time." | |
| Apr 23, 2014 at 12:45 | comment | added | shortstheory | So much of this advice applies to my current tryst with preparation for going to the Indian Institute of Technology/IIT. Thank you so much for this answer :) | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 21:18 | comment | added | vzn | & as in your final words/bottom line "but your head will still hurt..." :p | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 21:17 | comment | added | JeffE | @vzn The joy of discovery is in no way inconsistent with the frustration of hard work. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 21:15 | comment | added | vzn | interesting coincidence just quoted that same article recently. disagree that the feeling of masochism is mandatory, its only one possible interpretation/ mood/ pov/ reaction see eg joy of research by Gilmore president of Sigma Xi | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | JeffE | @vzn: But research is a masochistic endeavor; you really do have to enjoy feeling stupid almost all the time. See also: jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771.full | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 18:57 | comment | added | vzn | am glad others are finding so much inspiration here but it has an overly masochistic frame/pov... | |
| Jun 7, 2013 at 23:03 | comment | added | Aru Ray | Over the past year, I've been coming back here to re-read this answer because it speaks to me so much. In particular, 'But your head will still hurt' :) . | |
| Jan 22, 2013 at 6:38 | comment | added | posdef | +1 thanks for a great answer, and also introducing me to the name of my worst quality/habit. | |
| Jul 3, 2012 at 19:12 | vote | accept | Aru Ray | ||
| Jun 29, 2012 at 14:52 | comment | added | Chad Harrison |
Your "Aha!" momments will start increasing increasingly. Just think of it as a compounding interest function: x^(1+i). x is the amount that you already know and i is the rate at which you learn. At some point, your gains will be much more noticable.
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| Jun 29, 2012 at 11:44 | comment | added | JeffE | @DavideChicco.it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome | |
| Jun 29, 2012 at 2:59 | history | answered | JeffE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |