Let’s start by rewriting the story I just told you. So what changed? Download my Impostor Flashcard here - it’s a quick way to remind yourself that you’re actually pretty OK, even if you feel less than average. The sense of being an impostor, a fake and terrible at my job had almost disappeared. When I became head of software development at a startup in the Australian property market, with free reign to hire my own team and set the technical direction of the company… I was actually mostly fine. For three years, I did the job of an incompetent. When I joined a hugely successful web startup, leading my own team of crack software developers with a budget of millions, I was absolutely winging it. I was surrounded by people who were just so much smarter than I was, who were doing better jobs. When I changed industries and became a consultant to a household name investment bank, it was incredible that they didn’t fire me within days. They were sure to find out that I was incompetent sooner or later, and there was no doubt they would get rid of me. When I was offered a consulting dream-job at the School of Physics at another prestigious university, it was obvious that everyone around me was smarter. When I excelled at my master’s degree in High Performance Computing at the same institution, I was faking it. When I was studying physics at Ireland’s leading university, graduating near the top of my class, I was no good at any of it. I have been an impostor throughout my entire adult life. By Daragh Byrne How I beat impostor syndrome and stopped feeling like a fake I have a confession to make.
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