Many high achievers, particularly women and people of color, suffer from impostor syndrome, the fear that they don’t belong in the rarefied realm to which they’ve ascended and that they will soon be found out. “I share that with you because we all have doubts in our abilities, about our power and what that power is,” she told students in London in December. I’ve just finished Vicky Ward’s “Kushner, Inc.,” a scintillating investigation of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s White House sojourn, which comes out on Tuesday. Why don’t they have impostor syndrome, given that their total lack of qualifications for the jobs they are doing makes them actual impostors? According to “Kushner, Inc.,” Gary Cohn, former director of the National Economic Council, has told people that Ivanka Trump thinks she could someday be president.

Source: New York Times March 19, 2019 02:15 UTC