Does anyone else suffer from impostor syndrome?

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Personally for me, I feel I have landed up in a job which require a high degree of technical expertise, which I feel, I have managed to convey in my interviews more on the basis of my communication skills rather than deep understanding of the underlying concepts, so far I have been on a few high visibility projects and have delivered, but I feel it was more due to sheer luck in getting the right problem which I could solve more than my intelligence.

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Yes.. I used to be technical and would suffer from this a little. Now, as a manager of a few hundred, I experience this every day. What helps is keep reflecting on where you have come from and accomplished.

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@MS1 so I just got a new job at a much better firm and I recently married a great girl. I keep feeling like my luck is going to run out & I'll lose it all because someone figures out I am not that smart.

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Wow never knew there was such a precise term to describe how I constantly feel

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Of course

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Well said

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Of course, sometimes it's just true.

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Weirdly, no. I got it really bad when I was still in academia, but after years of that this place is a cakewalk >.>

Used to. Fortunately I've gotten enough positive reinforcement over the past couple of years to combat it.

Could anyone explain what it feels like? I understand the concept but I'm at a loss to empathize with the symptoms

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