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Why academic achievement doesn't cure feeling intellectually inadequate

I have three degrees and speak four languages but I still feel stupid every day, like I'm fooling everyone and they'll figure out I don't actually know anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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External validation has become disconnected from your internal sense of intellectual worth, creating an unfillable void.

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