The fix for imposter syndrome is to stop comparing one's self to others. The definition of an imposter is: "a person who pretends to be someone else in order t

The fix for imposter syndrome is to stop comparing one's self to others. The definition of an imposter is: "a person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain." So, if you feel you're an imposter, it's only because you're comparing yourself to others who you feel are either doing it better than you in their respective roles, or perhaps worse still you fear they could do your job better than you. In my experience, as a man with a semi successful software business and no formal education in the industry - the only thing that has kept me from falling under the imposter syndrome bus is just working harder and ignoring others around me. I love this snippet I saved from a Reddit post some years ago, I come back to it from time to time when I've demotivated myself - typically by comparing myself to others more "successful" than me: -- You do not make progress in climbing a "mountain" (neither real or ethereal) by standing around gawking and whining about how much further or faster others are climbing it. You make progress climbing by putting one foot in front of the other, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day. You gauge your progress ONLY and SOLELY on how much further up that mountain you are NOW than you were a minute, hour or day ago. As you continue to climb, you use the distance you have recently come to motivate yourself to climb further and faster than YOU have done in the past. You only need worry about others when they are directly in your way and preventing you from making forward progress -- and even then it is best to simply sidestep them and continue on your journey up. When you reach some higher plateau, if you then want to take a breather and greet the fellow climbers that have reached a similar plateau, that is fine, but it does not matter if they have reached it faster or slower, before or even after you -- the journey further upward for everyone is in the future, not the past. -- P.S. I killed all my social media except for Linked In - that helped a bunch too.