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Lunar newsletter: Young, Asian, full of potential, and feeling like a fraud
- Lunar is a weekly curated selection of news, interviews and features dedicated to celebrating women in Asia and sharing stories that matter
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Being well-educated and accomplished isn’t necessarily a guarantee for success — or the key to feeling like one. In fact, it could be the gateway to a life of dissatisfaction.
Studies have shown that for high achievers, women, racial and religious minorities and children of tiger parents, impostor syndrome is nothing new.
Many grow up in highly competitive environments where life is a constant chase for fancy job titles and influence, and where chatter around the dinner table surrounds whose child is attending which Ivy League school.
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“I had this teacher at university who always talked about her expectations of us,” said 23-year-old Jessie Wu, an assistant relationship manager at a Taiwanese bank. “Eventually, I felt guilty whenever my performance did not reach the level that she expected.”
In this article, six young Asian adults talk about their experience living with chronic self-doubt and how it affected their lives.
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