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A different approach may be to find out why you did so well for a long time and now think you are not able to do so? This is not my expertise but why do you fee

• algoguy 9y ago
  I think what happened is imposteur syndrome, coupled with doing probably a little too well, too fast. I felt a bit of a fraud, that I was merely copying other's ideas, not really bringing too much to the company, and was just lucky to be leading the most successful team of the company (people had quit, and I was promoted because there was a vacant position). I also felt that I had not much more to achieve, and therefore that I had no challenge to solve. I completely disengaged and felt I had to hide the fact that I was just lucky/copying other people. That made me feel that I had to play politics to hide my shortcomings, and made me disengage even more from the technical side. I feel it would be quite a bit of mental effort to get back on the technical side, but I also feel I would fail if I did so. Younger guys come out of university, work 14+ hours a day and are more skilled than me already in some areas. Also, I started to have kids at about the time things started to go downhill, and I think that played a very large role: I became much less interested in spending so much of my time at work, focusing on making money and not helping anyone real...