Imposter Syndrome

Imposter syndrome is when you doubt your own skills and successes. You feel you’re not as talented or worthy as others believe, and you’re scared that one day, people will realize that.

Impostor syndrome is the reverse of the Kruger-dunning effect. Dunning-Kruger effect

How to deal with it?

Do you feel like you don’t know what you are doing? None of us do. We are travelling on a planet through space around a big ball of fire at 67,000 miles/hour while rotating a 1000 miles/hour. The Sun is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of the Sun. We are all operating on the edge of understanding. Own it. Accept it. All we have to do is to know how to find an answer. We do our best to find an answer. We know some stuff. We don’t know other things.

  1. https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/5-How-large-is-the-Sun-compared-to-Earth
  2. https://stardate.org/faq/how-fast-is-earth-moving-through-space

Reading material

  1. https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-imposter-syndrome
  2. https://www.turing.com/blog/programmer-imposter-syndrome-tips