How do you deal with imposter syndrome?

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First of all, if you feel like you don’t know enough, take time after work to read up on manuals, policies, technical concepts (databases, cloud migration etc). It’s all there on google. At the very least, you can be reading up on areas you are not confident in. Secondly, just know that everyone’s BSing. Literally everyone. Asked your immediate supervisor a question because you didn’t know what to do, and the response felt like it sort of answered your question but not really? Yeah because s/he didn’t know either. Welcome to the club

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Honestly as bad as you think you are there’s 1,000,000,000s of people that are worse. That’s enough value in my opinion.

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But also EY’s post below me is more actionable so do that too lol

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Swallow insecurities and self doubt and listen. I really spend a week or so listening to everything. You learn a lot just listening and observing.

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Moving out of IT consulting to Product Management side in the next couple of weeks.
The new company I will join is an e-commerce division of a leading food retail group.

Any suggestions about books/ videos that I can access to learn the basics of the product side?

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