thank you for writing this! your personal experiences were extremely relatable. I laughed at “Remind yourself that it’s someone else’s job to figure out whether you’re meeting their standards as an employee, so you don’t need to constantly feel angst about whether you should quit to save them the trouble of firing you.” (I will not type up the counter-argument my brain is attempting to come up with)
one of the ways in which ~imposter syndrome has made me worse at accomplishing things is that it has made me worse at asking questions when I was confused, because I was afraid that the questions I would ask would give me away as an imposter. this isn’t all downsides: it probably resulted in me being better at working through confusions that I have, but also cost me a lot of time. I personally found reading https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ helpful for that specific facet.
thank you for writing this! your personal experiences were extremely relatable. I laughed at “Remind yourself that it’s someone else’s job to figure out whether you’re meeting their standards as an employee, so you don’t need to constantly feel angst about whether you should quit to save them the trouble of firing you.” (I will not type up the counter-argument my brain is attempting to come up with)
one of the ways in which ~imposter syndrome has made me worse at accomplishing things is that it has made me worse at asking questions when I was confused, because I was afraid that the questions I would ask would give me away as an imposter. this isn’t all downsides: it probably resulted in me being better at working through confusions that I have, but also cost me a lot of time. I personally found reading https://danluu.com/look-stupid/ helpful for that specific facet.