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It’s strange. In the tech industry, whenever you express any self doubt, people read that as you saying you have impostor syndrome. Why is that?
by blickentwapft 6y ago
It’s strange.
In the tech industry, whenever you express any self doubt, people read that as you saying you have impostor syndrome.
Why is that?
- bitten 6y agowith imposter syndrome you have self doubt, but having self doubt doesn't mean you have imposter syndrome. at least to my understanding and experience. so the difference can be confusing and it's easy to label one as the other. but i also appreciate your concern, my friends use imposter syndrome when they sometimes mean self doubt.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoBecause as opposed to what many people like to think, and even though tech is a purely desk-kind-of-job; tech doesn’t actually require deep intellectual thinking. Tech is the least risky engineering discipline and in the huge majority of jobs requires the level of a plumber work with almost none of the liabilities of physical manufacturing. So of course a lot of us have impostor syndrome as we’re simply not doing anything special (but also the job doesn’t actually require anything special either)
- kubanczyk 6y agoI read you. Impostors bad-mouthing themselves? That's a contradiction in terms pure and simple.