Imposter syndrome: Pre-class activities

Psychologist Pauline Rose Clance was the first to study this unwarranted sense of insecurity.
To call it a syndrome is to downplay how universal it is. It’s not a disease or an abnormality, and it isn’t necessarily tied to depression or self-esteem.
Since it’s tough to really know how hard our peers work, how difficult they find certain tasks, or how much they doubt themselves, there’s no easy way to dismiss feelings that we’re less capable than the people around us.