<story><title>Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-impostors-advantage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been coding off and on professionally for over a decade and I STILL feel like an imposter.&lt;p&gt;I still have to look stuff up constantly.&lt;p&gt;I still watch how-to code videos everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;m alone or other people just can&amp;#x27;t bring themselves to admit that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paul_f</author><text>The OP is not talking about mundane things, such as remember the difference between implode and explode in PHP. They are talking about a a deep feeling of incompetence. I believe that imposter syndrome is more prevalent in the software world because, unlike auto mechanics or surgeons for example, we are not give a chance to watch the process actually take place, we only see the results. We see the finished code and don&amp;#x27;t know how it was derived. Imagine all we got was: car works again, now you fix the next one</text></comment>
<story><title>Google taught me to turn Impostor Syndrome into an Advantage</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/the-impostors-advantage/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gregd</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been coding off and on professionally for over a decade and I STILL feel like an imposter.&lt;p&gt;I still have to look stuff up constantly.&lt;p&gt;I still watch how-to code videos everywhere.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;m alone or other people just can&amp;#x27;t bring themselves to admit that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jascination</author><text>If someone writing a novel has to look up the spelling of a particularly useful word that fits the situation perfectly, but they can never manage to spell it right without aid, does that make them an impostor?&lt;p&gt;No brain can contain the exact right way to do x, y and z - and it needn&amp;#x27;t, because we have a magic box that we can ask and get great help when we need it.&lt;p&gt;IMO, being a developer isn&amp;#x27;t about being 100% amazing with your syntax or being able to recite the ES2015 spec by heart; it&amp;#x27;s about knowing what tools to use when.</text></comment>