Impostor Syndrome

Think of your greatest achievements. Do you feel proud of what you've accomplished? Or do you feel like a fraud?

Does each raise, promotion or accolade bring joy? Or is it accompanied by the dread that, one day, your cover will be blown, and everyone will find out that you just got lucky?

Impostor Syndrome (also known as Impostorism, Impostor Phenomenon and Fraud Syndrome) is the overwhelming feeling that you've only succeeded due to luck, and not because of your talent or qualifications and you don't deserve your success. You become convinced that you're not as intelligent, creative or talented as you may seem. And you suspect that your achievements are down to luck, good timing, or just being "in the right place at the right time.". It is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud".

People of high ability often have a low awareness of that ability. However, that doesn't mean that they all have Impostor Syndrome, which uniquely involves a dread of "discovery." The general patterns in individuals experiencing this can be classified either self proclaimed or on behavioral basis as Perfectionists, Experts, Soloists, Natural Genius, Prodigy and Super-men/women.

Values in Education or Value Education

Education without Vision is Waste,
Education without Mission is a Burden
Education without Values is a Crime

Physical wealth is considered the hallmark of success across societies and cultures, but a person’s real success should be measured instead by the values that he or she possesses such as empathy, care, love, enthusiasm, and humaneness. Today, there is a gradual moral decline in society’s and humankind’s values. Today, there is a need to re-introduce the subject of moral values in the curriculum of Indian students, since society seems to have lost much of its faith in the ethical values of humanity.

What has been viewed for so long as a family responsibility, value education should become an important part of the curriculum of any educating body. Education imparts knowledge which in turn fosters character. 

Individual values vary from society to society, religion to religion. However, there some values like Satya (Truth), Dharma (Being true to oneself), Shanti (Peace), Prem (Love) and Ahinsa (Non-Violence) that are free from controversy and should be acceptable to all the people of the country. On the essence of religions, the Upanishads say: “Just as the milk of the cows of different colours has a single essential colour i.e. white, similarly, truth, though proclaimed by different proclaimers, is always the same”.