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Discussion on: Honest thoughts about self-confidence

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Ben Halpern

In some ways Imposter Syndrome seems like a bit of a misnomer. Why would we call the thing that basically everyone goes through all the time a "syndrome". It's just the way things are. If anything I'm skeptical of people who don't seem to feel this way.

I thought by now I would have "overcome" these feelings, but nope. Logically I have come to realize people care about my thoughts, if only because of a humorous twist, but I still expect nobody to care and that I'll be literally figured out as a fraud every day.

So that is to say... yeah I get it.

And if you write a post about memory management, I would read the shit out of that. It's a topic that I don't really handle well and I love to see stuff like that come into my feed. I am sure many feel the same way.

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marsh

These are really nice words, specialy coming from the creator of this website.
Thankss :)

I like to think now that this voice is the one that keeps me on the right path, the one that keeps me out of my comfort zone. I don't know if everyone feels this ways to some extend.

Wish I had more time to write about it, or even read about it.
But if I find some, I'll try to share some more thoughts on whatever I feel like writing about :)

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Ben Halpern

Yeah no pressure, but if you do have time, there will be some people that find it valuable.