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WordCamp Auckland: I'm an imposter because...

WordCamp Auckland: I'm an imposter because...

Imposter Syndrome. It’s not new and anyone can get it, be they royalty, an American founding father or – in modern times – web professionals of all stages in their career and of all disciplines.

Peter Wilson

March 12, 2017
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  1. Imposter Syndrome Impostor syndrome (also known as impostor phenomenon or

    fraud syndrome) is a concept describing high-achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a “fraud". –Wikipedia
  2. Imposter Syndrome Impostor syndrome is that internal voice telling you

    that despite objective success, in fact, you’re shit at your job. –Peter Wilson
  3. Loaded with superabundant talent, [he] was a mass of insecurities

    that he usually kept well hidden. He always had to fight the residual sadness of the driven man, the unspoken melancholy of the prodigy. –Ron Chernow
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  8. You’re not a good developer I see myself as a

    front end developer who knows enough back end
 to be dangerous. –Peter Wilson
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  12. Hello my name is Jon, I'm the Android lead at

    Phunware. I can't read an input stream without copying and pasting code from stack overflow. Jon F Hancock @JonFHancock 5:02 AM - 27 Feb 2017
  13. Hello my name is Jon, I'm the Android lead at

    Phunware. I can't read an input stream without copying and pasting code from stack overflow. ♥ Jon F Hancock @JonFHancock 5:02 AM - 27 Feb 2017
  14. See, that’s what happens when you up against the ruffians


    We in the shit now, somebody gotta shovel it! Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction
 When you knock me down I get the fuck back up again! –Hercules Mulligan (Hamilton the Musical)
  15. Suppose … a deep disbelief in myself, forced me to

    do a magic to bring up to the surface a thing I know anyway? Does that make any sense to you? –Samuel Hamilton (East of Eden)
  16. Suppose … a deep disbelief in myself, forced me to

    do a magic to bring up to the surface a thing I know anyway? Does that make any sense to you? –Samuel Hamilton (East of Eden)