Tips to Fight Impostor Syndrome
summary
Impostor syndrome is defined as a gap between how people see their skills and their actual abilities; it affects developers and some leaders. The talk gives nine concrete rules: track small wins and map skills visually, join communities and find mentors, write articles and present internally then at meetups, start contributing to open source by fixing docs and small bugs, use pair programming to learn, share sketches and short videos (e.g., sketchnotes/Twitter), accept failure, and practice saying “I am proud,” illustrated with practical anecdotes.
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- 0:00Start
- 4:44YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND VICTORIES
- 6:05YOU WILL FIND FRIENDS, PEERS, AND COMMUNITIES
- 7:03YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SHARE AND CONTRIBUTE
- 9:06YOU WILL ASK FOR FEEDBACK RATHER THAN VALIDATION
- 9:57YOU WILL GAIN CONFIDENCE
- 12:45YOU MUST STAY POSITIVE
- 20:20YOU MUST BE PROUD OF YOURSELF
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