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Context: I'm a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP's from the for-profit "schools".

So, anyone else in a similar spot where you think you're kinda dumb, but you know you're still smarter than robots and people at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger graph in your field?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For competent people, I'm not even sure Impostor Syndrome is a real thing as much as it is just intimate knowledge of your own limitations, and making judgment calls based on knowledge of your own limitations. Does it mean you're not capable of those things? No, it just means you're aware that you lack knowledge in that arena. It's not as though you can't gain new knowledge. The most educated seem to be really aware of the things they don't know, and look to other experts for the things they don't know.

I'd say knowledge of your own limitations and and unwillingness to sell yourself as being more competent than you are in general are positives overall, indeed.