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Discussion on: My Experience of Imposter Syndrome

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Kieran Bowler • Edited

Mine is a very similar story and a lot of what you said sounded familiar to me too. I've been a web developer now since 2001, self-taught. I first heard the term "imposter syndrome" around 8 years ago and it really struck a chord. It's helped me be more aware of times when I'm feeling it, why I might be feeling it and also to not be so hard on myself.

Over the years I've also bookmarked lots of urls related to imposter syndrome too (many of which started from Hacker News threads).
Here they are in case they're of use to others: