Asking for help is so important in our field. I like to encourage people if they are stuck to ask for help after 15 minutes or so. It's amazing how quickly someone else can figure out an issue you spent hours trying to solve yourself. And it is so true that the experts also need help. I see a lot of my mentors and people I look up to publicly asking for help all the time.
I wouldn't really tie the imposter syndrome to ego though. I would say most developers that have an ego don't feel imposter syndrome or are projecting a big ego to cover up having it. Imposter syndrome is more about feeling like you don't know things you think you should know, being overwhelmed in a job or project, etc. than trying to be or appear to be the best developer. It's not really a logical thing to go through imposter syndrome, but our minds aren't always logical no matter how much we wish they were. 😄
Then I consider myself fortunate. For those that have the imposter syndrome feeling... never stop learning, never stop striving. The amount of information available is overwhelming. There is only one way to eat a digital elephant: a byte at a time.
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Asking for help is so important in our field. I like to encourage people if they are stuck to ask for help after 15 minutes or so. It's amazing how quickly someone else can figure out an issue you spent hours trying to solve yourself. And it is so true that the experts also need help. I see a lot of my mentors and people I look up to publicly asking for help all the time.
I wouldn't really tie the imposter syndrome to ego though. I would say most developers that have an ego don't feel imposter syndrome or are projecting a big ego to cover up having it. Imposter syndrome is more about feeling like you don't know things you think you should know, being overwhelmed in a job or project, etc. than trying to be or appear to be the best developer. It's not really a logical thing to go through imposter syndrome, but our minds aren't always logical no matter how much we wish they were. 😄
Then I consider myself fortunate. For those that have the imposter syndrome feeling... never stop learning, never stop striving. The amount of information available is overwhelming. There is only one way to eat a digital elephant: a byte at a time.