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Discussion on: How to escape the impostor syndrome

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Avoid gaslighters. Imposter syndrom doesn't occur magically because of your inner demons. Those demons are fed by the people around you who take advantage of you being insecure.
Don't lie to yourself about everything depending on you, you are a social human being reacting to the actions of others. You cannot simply decide how someone makes you feel or not feel. You have to realize it to be able to deal with that.

Look at the examples other give how mediocre work is doing a good job. It doesn't have to be perfect and most time, it doesn't have to be perfect.
I have experienced it more than once that the people telling you that (fast) mediocre results should be the goal, also like to point out every little flaw in your work. If they do so, you could ask them, if they think it would be worst the effort and how this would lead to significant better result. If their answer is not useful, their criticism wasn't it, too.