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Salon
Salon
Science
Mary Elizabeth Williams

Are you an "anxious achiever"?

I felt like Morra Aarons-Mele was talking directly to me. "Are you ambitious and driven — but you also ruminate, stew, and have a hard time letting things go?" she writes in the introduction to her new book. "Do you sometimes feel you're in over your head and any day now others will discover you're faking it?"

Do I ever. I've been in the workforce for decades now, and those exact queasy fears are as real as they were the first day of kindergarten, when I was positive I would accidentally end up in the wrong room and get in trouble.

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