"Imposter syndrome" is one of those terms that has lost most of its value now that it's become widely known. I don't think it has any value when it's self-diag

"Imposter syndrome" is one of those terms that has lost most of its value now that it's become widely known. I don't think it has any value when it's self-diagnosed. People seem to think that being in a new job or a new environment where they are the junior automatically means they have imposter syndrome. No, you probably are junior and do need to learn new things every day. You probably do have a lot to learn before you are useful. It's likely that you are out of your depth. That's not imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is when you are at the top of your field but you have the irrational belief that you're actually a total fraud, an imposter, someone that doesn't deserve to be there. Yet how many threads have I seen where someone with 10 years experience talks about how they had imposter syndrome a few years earlier?