How to Crush the Impostor Syndrome as an Aspiring Data Scientist Forever
You are riding the train. The irritation you've felt when the loud clickety-clack of the rails bothered your scroll time on your phone is long forgotten.
You look around, and the faces of your fellow commuters blur past your eyes like the many thousand frames of a terrible 480p YouTube video.
You don't even pause to consider the colorless, uninteresting, workaday lives of these people. They are unimportant. Just boring drops from an ocean of 8 billion.
And guess what?
They are doing the same.
8 billion specs of dust
Even if you are incredibly unselfish, the number one concern for your brain is yourself.
Awake, asleep, eating, running, helping the neighbor, or even when saving lives in a hospital, your brain is constantly working on thoughts of self on the back burner. You don't even realize it.
Take it to the next level, and you are under the Spotlight Effect, which is a psychological quirk of homo sapiens to believe that they are being noticed more than they actually are.