The speed at which technologies grow means you learn new things in almost every project, and that may make you feel like you are not performing as you should (or that you aren’t in control of what you are supposed to be an expert in).
When problems start to arise, lots of times they are already solved by somebody else. In environments like that, it’s easy to feel you aren’t smart enough.
You’ve probably felt like this sometimes. Receiving positive input about your performance or work, and not believing it just because what you did was easy, or you got lucky. Or you just dismissed those opinions, thinking that if a real expert came in and looked at what you had done, he would show everyone that you were a fraud.
When that fear strikes, you start thinking that everyone is smarter than you, that there are lots of things that you don’t know that everyone else already knows, and that they are expecting you to know them, too.
But there are ways to reverse this cycle and overcome impostor syndrome. Here are nine steps that can help.