Why am I so stupid? I constantly feel as if I am getting through life only by the grace of others, and that as soon as that ends, I’ll be cast out due to my idiocy. I know that this is the so-called “impostor syndrome” and that it is particularly prevalent in high-achievers, but that’s no excuse for consistently not knowing things that I should. Having made it my goal to know, I am only inundated by all that I do not know.

Rejection only makes it worse, because it comes to be viewed as condign, while accomplishment is brushed off and set aside; a mere trifle regardless of its depth.