Everyone feels like this. Even the people who seem blind to their own faults feel like this; they just cover it with arrogance.
Originally shared by Winchell Chung
Neil Gaiman on Impostor Syndrome
Mike Reeves-McMillan lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards. He also writes the Gryphon Clerks series (steampunk/magepunk), the Hand of the Trickster series (sword-and-sorcery heist capers), and short stories which have appeared in venues such as Compelling Science Fiction and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
The Peter principle?
Something like that.
I suspect this is the cause of much of the malaise of academic life… and all the self-promotion and posturing that is required these days just makes it worse!