![]() When something good happens, just make a note of it with a description of the effort you took to achieve it. It doesn't matter how big or small it is. In general, I believe the following tips help to handle imposter syndrome while understanding the Dunning Kruger Effect: They know what they don’t understand.Ĭan you see how this can cause an imposter syndrome to come up?īy knowing this effect in addition to being aware of imposter syndrome, we can handle imposter syndrome better. It happens because the experienced developers, or those on the track to becoming experienced, know how vast the field of software development is. In the simpler way of interpreting the graph, we can say, The inexperienced do not know what they do not know. If you observe the above graph you’ll see that beginners or less experienced devs are mostly under the impression that they are familiar with all that exists in their field and they're Pro. The result of their study found that those who are incompetent tend to overestimate their abilities, while those who are competent underestimate them In 1999, Dunning and Kruger conducted a study: Unskilled and Unaware of It: How difficulties in Recognizing One's Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias stating the relationship between an individual’s perceived knowledge of the subject matter and its ACTUAL knowledge. It acts as a signal that you’re gaining expertise But I think it's OK to feel mediocre as long as you know you’re learning, growing, and contributing back to the community.Īt the same time why I feel it is good is because. In the process of comparing, or working alongside highly capable developers, it's very easy to lose track of the high quality of work that’s going around. The software industry is very big and growing very fast, so the competition is inevitable and global – it’s not limited by physical/geographic distance.Īnd that is just another reason to not feel comfortable at all times. This leads to the thinking that they're not qualified enough and all that they have achieved is solely through luck.įrom online coding contests to interviewing to raising PRs for open-source to full-fledged industry-level product development. And no one would feel proud if another developer came in and improved the code by 500% in a just few days where you have spent perhaps weeks or months. Whatever solution you come up with, it’s very easy to measure the “efficiency” of that solutions. It's bad because this can become a cause of anxiety and unhappiness in someone's life, who by all means should be proud of their work and accomplishments.įurthermore, I think why so many software developers face imposter syndrome is because. I think the imposter syndrome is both good and bad. Instead, the achieving individuals believe that they have been only lucky in their achievements and they haven't done anything major to achieve it. It is when someone is being too hard on themselves and not giving themselves the credit for what they deserve and achieved. Imposter Syndromeįor those unfamiliar with the term imposter syndrome, It is when a person starts to doubt their own capabilities & accomplishments and believes that they are a fraud and have succeeded only through luck and soon people will realize they don't know what they are talking about. And even the stuff that you use to think you know but actually you don’t, which is why a lot of us face the situation like the imposter syndrome and the Dunning Kruger effect (a lot!). It’s what makes the field so challenging, interesting, and fun all at the same time.īut that also means that you will constantly keep coming across the stuff you don’t know. Software Development is one of those fields that is fast-paced, and always in flux. But because now this thought is constantly juggling in my head, So here it goes! This article has been in my drafts for a long time but I never clicked that Publish button as I was skeptical whether people would connect with these kinds of topics on my blog or not.
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