Word: gremlins
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...syndrome is that as you go through college, you occasionally come across a stumbling block on the way to your goals—a bad grade, an internship rejection, a nasty break-up—fill your favorite disappointment in the blank. These disappointments unleash the self-esteem gremlin, who mockingly says, “Ha! I told you that you would fail. Doesn’t [disappointment from above] show that you really don’t have what it takes? Face it-you’re just not good enough...
Even as you successfully tuck the gremlin away for now, reassuring yourself that the blip is a one-time misstep, inconsequential in the scheme of things, lingering doubts remain, a crack in your self-confidence. But then you suffer the more common minor annoyances of everyday life—you make a comment that is quickly dismissed in section as irrelevant, a close friend doesn’t say ‘hi’ on the street, or you feel passed over in an extracurricular—and the self-esteem gremlin once again rears its ugly head. Except...