#impostorsyndrome — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://autistics.life/@murdoc/117366697231704036

Impostor Syndrome seems to have two characteristics:

1. It's irrational, not necessarily based on real evidence that you're incompetent.

2. It's internal. This is something we experience inside our own minds.

External factors like judgmental players is a whole 'nother topic entirely.

#impostorsyndrome #anxiety #judgment #ttrpg #dnd

Instituting a new rule at work to help people get over impostor syndrome during vendor/architectural assessments.

From now on, no matter how stupid the question, everyone has to come on camera, off mute, and cheer and clap and say "Good Question, Good Question" like on Family Feud

#infosec #engineering #impostorsyndrome

D&D impostor syndrome is more common than most gamers realize. I've been running games since 1980, and I still get hit with doubt before almost every session. Turns out 72% of us deal with this. Here's why your brain is lying to you.

READ: https://ruckerworks.com/2026/10/gamer-impostor-syndrome-sucks/
WATCH: https://youtu.be/KOmT2oMXk3U [6 min 47 sec]

#dnd #ttrpg #impostorsyndrome #dungeonsanddragons #anxiety

...y’know, there are times that I don't think I'm much of a train nerd, given how many train-obsessed people I surround myself with that really do know so, so much more than I about the most obscure bit of rail information.

And then I post things like this, and I realise that, yeah, maybe I do know a bit more than the average person about trains.

#ImpostorSyndrome #Geekery

My next video and article, coming out tomorrow, is about Impostor Syndrome in TTRPG players and dungeon masters.

Stay tuned!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ruckerworks/
Blog: https://ruckerworks.com/blog/

#dnd #ttrpg #impostorsyndrome #dungeonsanddragons #anxiety

RE: https://social.ursa.nz/@arlewatyerre/117319277463358376

Some loosely held idesas in a little I thing wrote on #ImpostorSyndrome #Academia #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #PhDLife #Marxism #ClassStruggle #Intersectionality #ImposterSyndrome

I'm surely not the only freelancer who gets a sudden and dramatic case of Impostor Syndrome when it comes to naming a price for my work?

I can explain grammar. Translate complicated texts. Teach languages. Solve linguistic mysteries.

But then a client asks, “What do you charge?”
And suddenly I am a small Victorian orphan holding a calculator.
"Oh... money? For my actual professional skills? Are you quite sure?" 🥺

Logically, I know my work has value.
Emotionally, I am apparently negotiating the price of a single biscuit and hoping nobody notices.
Freelancers: please tell me this is normal. 😅

#Freelance #FreelancerLife #ImpostorSyndrome #SelfEmployed #LanguageTeacher #Translator #SmallBusiness #Pricing

Redes: trampas del perfeccionismo

#MindFuelForAll #productividad #procrastinacion #enfoque #ImpostorSyndrome #Perfeccionismo #Eficacia

🎥 Mira el video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFWvmrvadY

Oh boy, a self-important writer creates a platform to validate their own words as "authentic" because the world obviously needs *another* GitHub clone. 🙄 Apparently, battling impostor syndrome requires a full-blown software development project now. 🥳
https://dylan.blog/2026/08/03/im-scared-a-stranger-will.html #selfimportance #GitHubclone #impostorsyndrome #softwaredevelopment #validation #HackerNews #ngated

"I think a lot of people have this weird idea that they need to never express a lack of knowledge. Fake it till you make it? This is very wrong! Simply recognizing when you don't know something is one of the most essential skills on the path to actually knowing what the hell you're talking about."

"Saying a version of "I don't know" and then outlining the steps you would take *to* know is a nearly-universal requirement for passing your qualifying exams as a PhD student."

— Mike Wiser, evolutionary biologist, teaching-track associate professor (knowledge transmitter)

Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped: https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

#answers #learning #research #academicChatter #impostorSyndrome #AIRisks

"Imperfection is not a failure but a method. […] Putting down what you know, what you suspect, and what you are not yet sure about often turns out to be the fastest route to clarity. The act of spelling out what you mean, imperfect as it is, creates the conditions for the next step."

"The discomfort of not quite knowing what you think yet, of having to follow the argument into territory that makes you uncertain, is the academic work."

Pat Thomson : https://patthomson.net/2026/03/08/getting-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable/

#writing #research #academicChatter #impostorSyndrome

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@pyconza talk proposal submitted! Let's see what happens.

#ImpostorSyndrome

If you ever feel #impostorSyndrome ... we have a client with a market cap of almost 1/4 $trillion who can't pay their bills on time because *checks notes* one specific person took leave.

Compararte en redes: el perfeccionismo procrastina

#MindFuelForAll #miCanal #ImpostorSyndrome #PerfectionismProcrastination #SocialComparison #CompararteEnRedes #PerfeccionismoEnRedes

🎥 Mira el video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m09E9rg5cA

Fuck, the main author on this paper is... 16?!
#IMPOSTORSYNDROME
https://youtu.be/iw1VF8HOCrk

El Perfeccionismo en Redes

#MindFuelForAll #mindset #impostorsyndrome #perfectionismparalysis #actionoverperfection #stopprocrastinating #publishnow

🎥 Mira el video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ogrpg7Cr0

@MadBracki Jedes. Einzelne. Mal. #ImpostorSyndrome

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/116334229654969479

To every programmer with impostor syndrome:

If you ever had thoughts like the following—especially in your more junior years:

"Man, I work at this unknown small-town shop. I would be so much more respected and make a hell of a lot more money, if only I could work at a Silicon Valley company."

Or, after browsing LinkedIn, learning that your idiotic/arrogant former classmate with whom you graduated, landed a job at one of the big Silicon Valley companies and you wonder how he did that because you work at a company in the middle of nowhere …

—the leaking of the source code of Claude Code should give you a huge boost of confidence.

These people working at Anthropic and the likes are SUCH BAD CODERS. They literally don't know how anything works. You and every colleague you ever liked is much better at programming than these idiots working at the big-name company.

Working at a small-town shop on something ethical gets you much more respect from the people that count, than working at the big-name companies. As proven by the increasing calls to auto-ban from open-source projects everyone employed at certain companies.

#programming #anthropic #ClaudeCode #MentalHealth #impostorSyndrome

Kathryn Jesaitis Papandrew — One Advice to a Younger Self | People I Admire

https://makertube.net/w/qPpSvVc2omBVmX4LPhiXjN

@Mepurfield I have written 2.5 novels, I care for my disabled spouse and father, and I go out every day to grease the wheels of capitalism with my own blood, sweat, and tears, and I still feel like a lumpo who doesn't contribute to society. I totally get this feeling. #impostorsyndrome

There are days… #ImpostorSyndrome

@retroadventurers.bsky.social I had a lot of fun coming up with this conceit, playing the OLDEST and the YOUNGEST editions of #Zork 1 to come from the MIT/#Infocom core teams. This is a slightly short episode (as playing the same game twice is a bit cheeky given our format), but both these versions of the game are a must-see for completists in the genre.

I mention in passing that I always had a bit of #ImpostorSyndrome around Zork, as I have held the domain `zork.net` since the mid/late 90s. I always felt like I was simultaneously dodging #Activision's lawyers and feeling awkward around the die-hard fans who played until they got every last point. Now that #Microsoft has released everything under an open licence, I should probably put a free build up on my site in #Parchment to celebrate!

The Zork-285 game is interesting in that it did not call itself "Zork"! You'll have to listen to the latest #RetroAdventurers episode to find out what it says. #InteractiveFiction

As a software developer this video has cured my impostor syndrome 😅

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3_95BZYIVs

#SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #impostorsyndrome #GitHub

https://piccalil.li/blog/programming-principles-for-self-taught-front-end-developers/

Personne ne sait tout, même ceux qui ont le diplôme encadré au mur. Andy Bell le dit bien : être autodidacte, c'est avoir appris à apprendre, et ça, ça vaut de l'or. Arrêtez de vous comparer, construisez des trucs qui marchent.

https://chierchia.fr/2025/11/programming-principles-for-self-taught-front-end-developers
#FrontEnd #Autodidacte #ImpostorSyndrome #WebDev #DéveloppementWeb

@normalmode @khardix @amin

Thank you for this!!! This is the kind of thing I really appreciate learning, and helps me feel like I've actually learned something, rather than just learning how to do something with something.

I think the latter is the cause of a lot of a lot of #ImpostorSyndrome in the tech community, for people are lacking the kind of deeper theoretical basis for their craft.

A reflection on a post Ph.D. mindset.

Looking back, it took me at least 3 years, if not 6 years for my #ImpostorSyndrome to fade away. Tonight I was reading my own #PhD thesis (dated 2019) and I was thoroughly impressed by the depth and the quality of the writing.

On the other hand, I clearly recall during the months closest to my PhD defense, where I was nearly convinced that what I had done was a "piece of cake" that any grad student could have done themselves. How I was wrong.

To all PhD students out there, don't let the impostor in you to discourage you. Give yourself a pat in the back and believe in your peers and friends when they say you have done well! 🥇

How to Navigate Imposter Syndrome When Applying for New Roles: https://manyhatsoftuley.com/2025/10/29/how-to-navigate-imposter-syndrome.html

#macadmins #jobs #layoffs #impostorsyndrome

GIC 2025 was amazing! Super stoked that all of you came to listen to my talk! #impostorsyndrome

I Hate My Book (And I Published It Anyway)

How hating my own draft taught me what it really means to be a writer Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/i-hate-my-book-and-i-published-it-anyway-592adf68d48

#impostorsyndrome #editing #writing #creativity #publishing

@82mhz

Ooof, that is very frustrating.

Long before the current trend of AI crap, I was already frustrated by the heavily example-based and "google how to do X" method of #pedagogy in the technical world.

I honestly think it was the cause of so much #ImpostorSyndrome: learning things piecemeal and reactively, rather than foundationally and methodically.

If you ever feel like you aren't good enough, please remember that a $44bn social media site had a breaking defect in their registration flow with no means of recovery, owing to confusing relative and absolute paths.

Oh, this was about ten minutes ago, by the way.

#ImpostorSyndrome #SocialMedia #WebDev #Engineering

Love when AI cites me as a source like, “According to leading neuroscientist @breadonmars…” and I’m over here Googling ‘does the brain have a firewall’ 🧠🔥 #AI #ImpostorSyndrome

Better Company Than Caesar

What is this urge that makes us want to be seen as something we aren’t. Take this blog, for example. I am in no way a writer. Barely even a proper blogger. My professional life has very little of this kind of writing. Scientific and investor communication, sure; but not this. Why do I have — and always have had — this urge to be, and be seen, as creative? Is this some kind of performative, effortless polymathism?

Perhaps the desire is to be a modern Renaissance man. In of Montaigne’s essays is the following passage:

“They would rather talk at length about other people’s trade, instead of their own, and so hope to be seen as accomplished in yet another field. Like when Archidamus faulted Periander for abandoning his reputation as a good doctor to acquire one as a bad poet. 

See how Caesar goes out of his way to make us understand his ingenuity in building bridges and siege weapons. And, conversely, how much he refrains from talking about the responsibilities of his profession, his courage, and how he led his troops. His deeds prove he was an excellent officer. He wants to be known as an excellent engineer, an entirely different occupation!

Dionysus the Elder was a great military leader, as fortune would have him. But he did everything he could to be known mainly through poetry, although he knew little of it.”

Montaigne, if not a “Renaissance man”, is a man of the Renaissance. Yet he quotes even older examples of this urge. We have leaders who are CEOs or investors and want to be known or seen as being accomplished engineers or physicists. Fields they are rather bad at. Perhaps there is a common kind of mania here. Maybe it takes hold in the minds of the mover and shakers of history. But what of us not of a geologic character?

I don’t think this applies to us regular folks. Hobbies and deep interests do provide something critical however. Happiness. I don’t really care much about being seen as an expert in writing, making pretty plots, or even performing some AI-for-biology contortion. I would like to know how to do it and how to do it well. I am led by the pleasures of intense curiosity. That is better company than Caesar, I assure you.

Maria Popova writes in one of her wonderful essays on Bertrand Russell:

‘In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window. We know this by its mirror-image — to contact happiness of any kind is “to be dissolved into something complete and great,” something beyond the bruising boundaries of the ego.’

By the end of 2023, I was in proper burnout.*1 It wasn’t until I was able to focus my mind on reading new things that recovery felt possible. Earlier this year I joined the Contraptions book club and that complete focusing of attention has buoyed my mental state even higher. Enough to write regularly and to be ever more creative at my day job.

So, I guess, the Nobel-winning philosopher and mathematician did know a thing or two when he decided to write a book with the title in The Conquest of Happiness.
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

1. Sidenote: I suspect Montaigne, who was about my age when he started to write also went through a midlife crisis. This sidenote is somewhere between projection and basking in reflected glory. ↩︎

#bertrandRussell #burnout #Creativity #curiosity #Happiness #history #hobbies #impostorSyndrome #mariaPopova #montaigne #personalGrowth #philosophy #polymath #renaissance #theConquestOfHappiness #writingLife

Impostor syndrome and hiring power