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Discussion on: When your entire knowledge gets judged because you didn't know that one random fact

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HawiCaesar • Edited

I think at one point or another we have faced the imposter syndrome. I guess this comes from built up years when maybe you were told "You are smart...", "You are brilliant..." This may make us have a shortcut; makes our brains lazy. Why? Because we have been told we are smart. We don't have to think. A fixed mindset is made.
When we are presented with something new we end up feeling this way.
Cultivating a growth mindset is good to help mitigate such situations; "I know a few topics(or nothing) about the subject matter, but hey I'm willing to get a different way of looking at the topic with various questions I may have as well"

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Yaphi Berhanu

Very true. I'm a huge fan of growth mindsets.