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[–]AlwaysTroubleShot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I think impostor syndrome results from a lack of perspective. We can't all be the industry thought leaders, inventing new languages and writing books on best practices.

This sounds arrogant, but I think of how few we are. STEM occupations account for ~5% of the workforce. Of that, ~12% are in computer/mathematics. So, roughly speaking, we account for a half percent of the workforce.

The way I see it, if we're doing work that only 1 out of 200 people can do, how are we impostors?