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In the Cocoa Programming book, in the introduction, there's a neat anecdote about a developer who sometimes wonders "Am I stupid?" That'd be the imposter syndrome, I reckon.

The protagonists counter to that feeling of inadequacy is "Wait, I have a degree in astrophysics. I'm not stupid. This is hard."

So this imposter's imposter syndrome (that name makes me chuckle) I think is coming to the realization that "This is hard." Combined with acceptance.

Something like the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Nieburh. Or Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.

Rolling a metaphorical bunch of natural 20s doesn't hurt, either.