Impostor Syndrome
Discussions center on impostor syndrome, where people feel like frauds despite evidence of competence, often in tech careers, with references to definitions, personal experiences, and related concepts like Dunning-Kruger.
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Have you heard of impostor syndrome? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16983195
You misunderstand what Imposter Syndrome is. Please research the subject better and revise your post.
that just sounds like imposter syndrome with a different face on it.
This sounds similar to imposter syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
There is imposter syndrome though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Don't worry, it's probably just the impostor syndrome[0] acting up.[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Is this the opposite of imposter syndrome?
Sure!If you look at the levels of reported 'imposter syndrome', there is a noted rise over the last few years.I'm assuming here that you are aware of imposter syndrome and perhaps have felt it at times yourself. I certainly have.To our peers, we pretend we know more than we do to feign this confidence that has almost emerged as necessary since there are so many that can do our jobs as programmers.This feigned confidence manifests as imposter syndrome. Since we can'
Do you suffer from “imposter syndrome”?
Been there. Maybe this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome