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FAKING IT: If you privately suspect you’ve...

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FAKING IT: If you privately suspect you’ve bluffed your way to where you are today, you’re in good company (E1). . . . Even eminent folks can harbor what psychologists call “the imposter syndrome.” Consider the case of mystery writer T. Jefferson Parker. . . . “I certainly have those moments when I wake up at 3 in the morning with the thought that the world is going to find out I’m a complete, undiluted fraud,” says the Laguna Beach author. “I’m often compared to Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. It’s daunting to feel you’re being weighed against the heavies.”

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