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Agreed! Reminds me of Dan Abramov's post where he talks about what he doesn't know. We need more of these!
by leesec 5y ago
Agreed! Reminds me of Dan Abramov's post where he talks about what he doesn't know. We need more of these!
- ilaksh 5y agoBut this isn't about what you know or don't know. It's about the most expedient way to solve a problem. A lot of times, you might know enough to figure it out within five or ten minutes, but if you Google it, that goes down to 30-60 seconds.
- sseagull 5y agoThere was a website once where people would (anonymously) admit to things that they should know but don’t. Like a developer admitting they didn’t know basic command line commands and stuff, or a scientist admitting they didn’t understand calculus. Anyone have any memory of what that site was? It was sort of a site dedicated to imposter syndrome.
- albert_e 5y agoMinor nit .. Imposter syndrome is when you THINK/FEEL you don't know enough for a particular job role or situation. What you describe seems to be small instances of ACTUALLY NOT KNOWING a small fact / nugget and needing to look it up (not really devastating but might reinforce one's imposter syndrome). Feels slightly different?
- aulin 5y agoNope, imposter syndrome is when you're perfectly capable of doing a job but you don't know everything your role is supposed to know. You can be a successful scientist in a math-heavy field without having to do any pen and paper calculus ever. But you're supposed to be good at it, hence you feel like an imposter. Just like when you've been writing code for years and then they tell you're supposed to know how to write algorithms on a white board.
- crtasm 5y agoThis is incorrect - it's not about lacking bits of knowledge expected for a role, it's when someone feels like a fraud and undeserving of their status despite being entirely competent.
- aulin 5y agoYou can be entirely competent for a role and do it successfully while still feeling like you're missing fundamental knowledge you won't ever need to accomplish your job but that it's commonly perceived as a requisite. That can generate anxiety as you believe someone will at some point discover what you perceive as ignorance.
- crtasm 5y agoSure, but that is not imposter syndrome.
- aulin 5y agoDon't know, I'm still not convinced. The term deals more with the outcome, feeling like a fraud while being perfectly capable of fulfilling a role, than the reasons that could spawn those feelings. In my opinion feeling you lack knowledge you don't really need could be one of those reasons. Another could be you come from a different background than your peers and you feel somewhat inferior for being atypical.
- sseagull 5y agoI agree. But imposter syndrome is exacerbated by thinking/feeling that everyone around you knows so much more than you, when in reality they (probably) don’t. The site was dedicated to breaking down the illusion that everyone around you knows everything, and it is only you that doesn’t understand something.
- rgovostes 5y agoSounds like a subset of the content on PostSecret: https://postsecret.com https://postsecret.com