{"id":60,"date":"2022-11-06T21:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/?p=60"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:57:57","slug":"imposter-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/2022\/11\/06\/imposter-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Imposter Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Throughout my time at OSU, I have definitely felt the sneaky self-doubt feeling known as &#8220;Imposter Syndrome&#8221;. That feeling where you doubt all your skills and feel like a fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened again this past sprint when I went down a rabbit hole of trying to solve a certain problem. I started to overcomplicate a problem that had an easy solution. I succumbed to my self-doubt which led me into a google frenzy of trying to find a solution on sites like StackOverflow. If I would have trusted myself and my problem-solving skills instead of feeding into that feeling of &#8220;I have no idea what I am doing. I am a fraud.&#8221;, I would have saved myself a lot of time and frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how should you deal with Imposter Syndrome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Self-awareness.<\/strong> At the time, I did not realize imposter syndrome was happening but as I took a step away from my work, I reflected on what I was feeling and immediately thought &#8211; &#8220;imposter!&#8221;. Thus the first step in dealing with imposter syndrome is being aware that it&#8217;s actually happening.<\/li><li><strong>STOP.<\/strong> When you find yourself going down a rabbit hole of research to solve a problem, STOP. Get away from your computer and take a break. It&#8217;s usually in these moments where you have your best ideas, but it&#8217;s also just giving yourself a break mentally. If you sit at your computer and continue to fail at the same problem, it&#8217;s just going to feed your imposter syndrome.<\/li><li><strong>Be your own cheerleader.<\/strong> Instead of being your own worst critic,  start to think of all of the things you have already accomplished as a programmer.<\/li><li><strong>Let go of being a perfectionist.<\/strong> No programmer is perfect and every programmer looks to Google for help. So stop being so hard on yourself!<\/li><li><strong>Know you are not alone.<\/strong> In every professional, there comes a time when you feel like you have no idea what you are doing and that&#8217;s okay, it&#8217;s part of the learning process. So just know you are not alone with your &#8220;imposter&#8221; feelings.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And lastly and most importantly, <strong>BE KIND TO YOURSELF!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my time at OSU, I have definitely felt the sneaky self-doubt feeling known as &#8220;Imposter Syndrome&#8221;. That feeling where you doubt all your skills and feel like a fraud. It happened again this past sprint when I went down a rabbit hole of trying to solve a certain problem. I started to overcomplicate a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/2022\/11\/06\/imposter-syndrome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Imposter Syndrome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/jaclynsabo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}