Name: Impostor Syndrome in tech. ("Fake it till you make it")
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:06:31.000Z
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imposter syndrome Is that feeling you get when you feel like a complete fraud.

Like you don't really feel like you belong where you are.

You feel like everyone else around us so qualified, and you yourself you're not.

It said that imposter syndrome affects 58% of tech employees and perhaps many more outside of tech as well.

And I wanted to share a little story with you today.

You would imagine that I would have gotten past all of this, that I would have solved all of these issues about self esteem, self confidence.

And I wouldn't be so nervous, so anxious about my own qualifications, you know, like whether I'm fit to do things that I want to do.

And you know, the truth is that imposter syndrome even effects the best among us, including myself.

They have experience, they have knowledge, they have skills.

And yet I look at my own qualifications, you know?

I invite you to join me on my journey in which we will overcome imposter syndrome.

Together, we will fake it until we make it.

So whether we begin by sharing our stories with each other and before you share yours with me, I will go for us.

My story is actually somewhat different from other people.

See, my impostor syndrome is not so much with my job.

Actually, I'm feeling great about my job, and I feel very qualified about what I do in Tech.

Unlike other people in Tech, I actually feel extremely qualified about what I'm doing.

I've been coding since elementary school, and it's just been decades of nonstop programming.

I went to grad school for computer science.

I went through dozens of jobs and internships.

I've launched numerous successful clothing projects, so that's all great.

I have the knowledge I have to experience.

I look at the other people around me, I'd say about 58% or so They look like complete imposters, like they're just faking it until they make it.

Seems like they don't really know how the code don't really know what they're doing.

Um, I can see right through what they're trying to do, and it's just not gonna work on me.

These are people who don't even know basic Rikers in, But at least for me, I feel find there The issue I have with imposter syndrome is actually I want to be president.

I want to be president of the United States.

I mean, I'd like to be president of the world And I'm just thinking, Don't you need qualifications for this?

Like, don't I need political connections?

Don't I need the interest in world news Like I don't even read news.

I mean, when that Why can't I be president?

Why can't all of us we cannot be president.

Who are you to tell me that I can't be president?

You know this is a free country, and I don't think it's fair if I can't do what I want.

I'm gonna be like a doctor, like a surgeon.

Like doctors can cure so many health problems.

Like any time a family member or friend is sick, I can just go help him out.

I think the only problem is that up until now I've had no confidence in myself.

I think I don't even really look like a doctor like this physical appearance.

I think I look like an engineer more so I don't have any problems there.

But as far as trying to be a doctor, not sure if I really look the part.

If I tried holding my hair back, maybe I could be more like a doctor.

That's something I might want to try doing just so you know.

Like I don't want to put in the effort to try to get good at something and try to become like a doctor.

I'm not gonna waste 10 years of my life trying to do that.

And just because somebody else decided to spend 10 years of their life trying to get good at some skill and wasting tons of money and time and friend Resource is trying to do all that, That doesn't mean that that person is necessarily going to be more qualified than me, right?

I've watched a few YouTube videos on how to do this stuff and, you know, as a doctor, and you can call me Dr Tackle it if you like.

I don't feel like it's right to call me a fraud just because I don't have the knowledge experience or know how to do any of this stuff, right?

You can't tell me that somebody else is more qualified than me.

Simply based on their gender, their hairstyle, their physical appearance is their race, their religious ideology.

And I should be able to feel good about myself just because somebody else went to medical school and their stupid little medical residencies, they should not have more confidence than me.

Which is why I'm going to fake my confidence.

You know, if I'm not qualified than no one else is qualified, Okay, As far as I'm concerned, if I can't do it, then no one else can.

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