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When breakthrough discoveries feel too easy to deserve recognition

I solved a problem that my field has worked on for generations but the solution is so simple that I feel like a fraud for getting credit.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The relationship between effort and insight does not always align with our sense of earned achievement.

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