TL;DR; Fake it till you make it You're probably a perfectionist. Bad news: in a few years, you might still think you're not good enough, when in fact you'll go

TL;DR; Fake it till you make it You're probably a perfectionist. Bad news: in a few years, you might still think you're not good enough, when in fact you'll good enough. Good news: perfectionism will push you forward. So you can adopt the "fake it till you make it" attitude: stop worrying, go ahead and try to convince others you're good enough. It should be easy enough, because others are much less demanding than you might think... Then you'll see others judge you positively. That's when you'll start to make it. In other words: I'm a very experienced (42 yo) developer, highly regarded, yet I can't write code without running it, I make typos every few lines, I rely heavily on the huge amounts of documentation found on the web... And I know my english is not perfect, but sometimes, a native speaker tells me my english is fine... So I continue to fake it, till I'll make it.