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Special Note:I’m not a licensed
health care professional.
If you’re suffering from mental health issues,reach out to a health care provider -- seriously.
Help is always available. Talk to someone.You can talk to me anytime.
“Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud,and that I don’t deserve
any of what I’ve achieved.”
-- Emma Watson
A cognitive bias is apattern of deviation in judgment,
whereby inferences aboutother people and situations may be
drawn in an illogical fashion.(Thanks, Wikipedia)
In other words,impostor syndrome happens
when you often thinkyou aren’t competent,
even when you really are.
Our brains can’t always be logical.
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“Hey, I’ve flown these a few times.”
Dunning-Kruger Effect
“Fake it ‘til you make it”
Just right
Unsure
Impostor syndrome
Safezone
Cognitive Bias Spectrum
“Fake it ‘til you make it”is when your confidencetemporarily outweighs
your competence.
Eventually, your competencemust catch up.
When you’re unsure,you may need
temporary supportto regain your confidence.
Eventually, your confidencemust catch up.
Being humble issomething entirely different.
“True humility is notthinking less of yourself;
it is thinking of yourself less.”--C.S. Lewis
Photo credit: US Army / Michigan National Guard
The same goes for businesses and open source communities.
If we don’t knowwhat people can do,we will never knowwhere we can go.
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Colonel John Richard Boyd,United States Air Force
Photo credit: United State Air Force (public domain)
Observe
Watch body language of otherswhen you talk.
Write down your opinions and thoughts and share them with people you trust.
Get direct feedbackfrom peers and leaders.
Orient
Quantify your cognitive biasbased on feedback and your experience
Try to bring yourself-assessed competence in line
with your actual competence.
This is the most critical step.
Decide
Choose what you’re going to doand how you will do it.
Don’t go back on your decisiononce you make it.
This is the point of no return.
Act
Put your decision into actionand don’t look back.
This is “go time”.
Take the feedback you getand funnel it back into the OODA loop
for the next challenging situation.
“Wherever you are in life with whatever you’re doing – you’re going to be ahead of some and behind others. That’s okay. Own where
you are. Take time to embrace and celebrate that. Continue moving forward.
And never compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.”
-- Matt Cheuvront (livewithoutpants.com)