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

by Peter Wilson

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I’m an imposter because… Peter Wilson • @pwcc • peterwilson.cc

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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

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Imposter Syndrome Impostor syndrome is that internal voice telling you that despite objective success, in fact, you’re shit at your job. –Peter Wilson

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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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Photo: Joan Marcus

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Photo: @WCEurope

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You are a real developer.

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You’re not a good developer.

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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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Hello World

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ﬂic.kr/p/9h2dWR

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ﬂic.kr/p/oA9xdT

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ﬂic.kr/p/niwAQi

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My inner monologue is a real bastard.

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Managing the imposter

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clearleft.com

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Jeremy Keith

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An expectation of learning

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An expectation of ignorance

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Jeremy Keith

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  3D Transforms

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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

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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

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Never feel like an imposter again

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Never feel like an imposter again Terms and conditions apply.

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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)

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Be a ruffian

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Be a ruffian Get the fuck back up again

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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)

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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)