(i know, it's a bit horrible title here)
A curated list of awesome articles, videos, talks about imposter syndrome. Althought i considered this list is for imposter syndrom applying to software development, but if you have some good article or video concerning another sphere and you can describe why it's useful - i can add this!
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✨ Many of resources presented here have a comment system, and sometimes comments and personal experiences are more useful than article!
- Wikipedia article
- Feeling like everyone is a better software developer than you and that someday you'll be found out? You're not alone. One of the professions most prone to "imposter syndrome" is software development. - very good (and big) thread on Reddit about article that you can find below (Shut Up, Imposter Syndrome: I Can Too Program). Personal expiriences are gold!
- Shut Up, Imposter Syndrome: I Can Too Program
- Programmer Imposter Syndrome: 6 Ways to Get Over Yours - six really good advices about overcoming your imposter syndrome by CodingDojo.
- What is Impostor Syndrome? 6 Ways for Designers and Developers to Beat it - and another piece on imposter syndrom and six ways how to beat it from Shopify.
- I’m an Impostor - confessions of David Walsh on theme. There's one feeling, however, that I've not been able to conquer during my professional career: Impostor Syndrome.
- When programming was no longer fun - some very good advices from personal experience of Carl Hembrough. Comments are worth it!
- The Imposter Syndrome. Why you feel like a fake. - personal experience of Lewis Menelaws on dev.to
- Impostor Syndrome - It's real and it's all our faults - good piece by Spiro Floropoulos about imposter syndrome and our overwhelmingly complex *-end ecosystems.
- One Useful Advice To Fight The Impostor Syndrome - one good advice to fight imposter syndrome. Don't forget to read comments!
- 4 Things a Junior Web Developer Should do to Combat Imposter Syndrome - four technical tips for junior web-developers to fight imposter syndrome.
- Escaping Imposter Syndrome - personal experience talk of Chris Lema
- Madeleine Neumann: Impostor syndrome, am I suffering enough to talk about it? | JSConf Budapest 2017 - awesome talk by Madeleine Neumann, where she sharing her experience of imposter syndrome and giving some good advices for dealing with it.
- Unpacking Imposter Syndrome - interesting talk by Sarah C Young from the point of view of community factors affecting imposter syndrome.
- TED Talks Playlist: Fighting impostor syndrome
- The Impostor Syndrome - good animated explanations about what imposter syndrome is.
- Managing Imposter Syndrome as a New Developer - this one short video by Hope Connell, but it contains many great thoughts and advices for new developers.
- Self Doubt In Programming & Web Development and Dealing With Depression & Anxiety In Programming - just good personal experiences of Brad Traversy.
- Beating Your Imposter Syndrome -- Designer vs. Developer - Mustafa Kurtuldu speaks to Mat Scales, a Developer Programs Engineer on the Google Developer Relations Team, about how to use the Dunning-Kruger effect and how having a little bit of knowledge in design demonstrates that you know more than you realize.