The anecdotes you report sound a bit like that. It certainly looks like it is generating strong emotions!
Ragib Hasansays:
Perhaps this has something to do with their families’ expectations of them?
I know that the parents of some of my friends always kept pushing them in their childhood. Perhaps this instills low self-esteem in a person when they grow up.
Daniel,
I recently heard about the so-called “impostor syndrome”, which apparently is (relatively) common among creative people (including academics).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
The anecdotes you report sound a bit like that. It certainly looks like it is generating strong emotions!
Perhaps this has something to do with their families’ expectations of them?
I know that the parents of some of my friends always kept pushing them in their childhood. Perhaps this instills low self-esteem in a person when they grow up.