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The article claims impostor syndrome goes away after a few weeks. For me it took many years to die down and it’s still always in the back of my mind a little bit.

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Yeah, I remember at my first mid-year review I thought I was going to be reprimanded for lack of getting virtually anything done (not for lack of trying), only to get told I was doing great!

Yeah, maybe it should've been something like 'it gets better/bearable' after a couple of weeks, I don't think it ever really goes away.

10 years in, and I still deal with it on a regular basis (I wrote [1] a little bit about this the other day). Hopefully it goes away one day, but I suspect it won't.

[1]: https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/10-years-of-software-deve...

I don't think it ever goes away until you make peace with who you are. Accept that some days you will be less productive than others. Accept that somebody else will always appear to get more done than you.

Give a look at Scott Adams's goals vs systems. Personally, when I stick to my system I am less likely to look to something else to judge if I'm "doing enough" and as a result, imposter syndrome doesn't have a chance to creep in.

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