Are you trying to say that I can’t have a successful career until I join a prestigious company?
Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
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Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#12And yet I might be a real imposter %)
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#13Great article. Resonated within me.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#14I've been coding off and on professionally for over a decade and I STILL feel like an imposter.
I still have to look stuff up constantly.
I still watch how-to code videos everywhere.
Don't know if I'm alone or other people just can't bring themselves to admit that.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#15I've been coding off and on professionally for over a decade and I STILL feel like an imposter. I still have to look stuff up constantly. I still watch how-to code videos everywhere. Don't know if I'm alone or other people just can't bring themselves to admit that.
You are definitely not alone.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#16I've been coding off and on professionally for over a decade and I STILL feel like an imposter. I still have to look stuff up constantly. I still watch how-to code videos everywhere. Don't know if I'm alone or other people just can't bring themselves to admit that.
You say that you have to keep looking stuff up and watching tutorials. I hear that you're constantly learning and that's never a bad thing. You should be worried when there comes a day when you feel like you know everything because that's definitely not normal.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#17Imposter syndrome, n. 1. To suffer from delusions of mediocrity.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#18What if you are actually an impostor and write such to convince yourself you aren't ?
Well, I would say that if you are an 'actual impostor', it would become much more clear very quickly and create an impasse. I think impostor syndrome is much more about the feeling that behind your back, people think you're dumb which is just a much more unlikely situation.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#19I've been coding off and on professionally for over a decade and I STILL feel like an imposter. I still have to look stuff up constantly. I still watch how-to code videos everywhere. Don't know if I'm alone or other people just can't bring themselves to admit that.
If someone writing a novel has to look up the spelling of a particularly useful word that fits the situation perfectly, but they can never manage to spell it right without aid, does that make them an impostor?
No brain can contain the exact right way to do x, y and z - and it needn't, because we have a magic box that we can ask and get great help when we need it.
IMO, being a developer isn't about being 100% amazing with your syntax or being able to recite the ES2015 spec by heart; it's about knowing what tools to use when.
Re: Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage
#20I liked this. I also like how the moral of the story wasn't "You're not an imposter, you had it in you the whole time and just needed confidence", but rather "Yeah, you're an imposter. But you're always going to be an imposter and so is everybody else, so get used to it"