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Sure! If you look at the levels of reported 'imposter syndrome', there is a noted rise over the last few years. I'm assuming here that you are aware of impost
by halfjew222 8y ago
Sure!
If you look at the levels of reported 'imposter syndrome', there is a noted rise over the last few years.
I'm assuming here that you are aware of imposter syndrome and perhaps have felt it at times yourself. I certainly have.
To our peers, we pretend we know more than we do to feign this confidence that has almost emerged as necessary since there are so many that can do our jobs as programmers.
This feigned confidence manifests as imposter syndrome. Since we can't be honest (and risk management firing us because we're incompetent), we never quite feel like we're 'good enough' for our jobs.
Does that help?
- bobthechef 8y agoHuh? I think you have the wrong thread. Besides, pretending to be more competent than you are is fraud. Sounds like "imposter syndrome" as you have defined it is really the guilt of being a fraud, and frankly, it's well deserved because it's true. You should feel guilty for doing evil things. You should feel like an imposter when you are an imposter. The antidote is the courage not to be a fraud and not to be an imposter, not pathologizing it as a "syndrome" or blaming your boss for your own cowardice.
- wallace_f 8y agoCan you relax? Assuming good faith is a rule of HN. What are you trying to accomplish with such an extremely accusatory, and disparaging comment towards a user that--as is obvious in their posts here--is personally struggling. I'm not convinced they are acting in bad faith, and they are certainly not evil, blaming anyone, cowardly, etc, as you assumed. Try to be nice, and ask yourself what value you are adding to others.