(crosspost of a comment on imposter syndrome that I sometimes refer to)
I have recently found it helpful to think about how important and difficult the problems I care about are and recognise that on priors I won’t be good enough to solve them. That said, the EV of trying seems very very high, and people that can help solve them are probably incredibly useful.
So one strategy is to just try and send lots of information that might help the community work out whether I can be useful, into the world (by doing my job, taking actions in the world, writing posts, talking to people …) and trust the EA community to be tracking some of the right things.
I find it helpful to sometimes be in a mindset of “helping people reject me is good because if they reject me then it was probably positive EV and that means that the EA community is winning therefore I am winning (even if I am locally not winning).
(crosspost of a comment on imposter syndrome that I sometimes refer to)
I have recently found it helpful to think about how important and difficult the problems I care about are and recognise that on priors I won’t be good enough to solve them. That said, the EV of trying seems very very high, and people that can help solve them are probably incredibly useful.
So one strategy is to just try and send lots of information that might help the community work out whether I can be useful, into the world (by doing my job, taking actions in the world, writing posts, talking to people …) and trust the EA community to be tracking some of the right things.
I find it helpful to sometimes be in a mindset of “helping people reject me is good because if they reject me then it was probably positive EV and that means that the EA community is winning therefore I am winning (even if I am locally not winning).