 Hi, yes. So it's the first time I'm giving this talk in English. I'm French. And I'm stuck up. So I know the accent will not be perfect, sorry. But I hope you like this talk. First of all, who has ever heard about the Imposter syndrome? Where's your hand? Yes, bye-bye. No, no talk. I will ask you three questions. Where's your hand if you feel concerned? Are you sometimes afraid to ask stupid questions? Stupid, yeah? Yeah. Do you feel comfortable speaking to junior but not to your peers? The last one, do you feel that from what you have? So feeling that at any time you can be in a mask, that the other takes you for someone you are not an expert, a guru, a rock star, a ninja. Thank you. Why? Yeah. So my name is Gorillivash. I'm a teacher at the HClub. A European Cloud Promptroller. I'm a CNCF master, a talker, captain, Google expert in cloud technology, kit pod hero. I'm very invested in women intake association. I'm a technical article, book writer, scheduler, speaker, and I'm an imposter. I'm here in front of you, but I don't know anything. I'm worth nothing. I don't feel legitimate. I'm not the most qualified person to do this talk. I wonder if people find out I'm a kish, an imposter. Well, come on. Stop it. I don't think I'm the one on one thinking about that. And it's time to stop thinking this. Thinking this. Let's start with the beginning. What is imposter syndrome? It is, above all, a story of perception and comparison. I think that compares to others, I don't know much, while sterility is different. I know a lot of things that others don't know and this versa. This phenomenon was first detected in women, but it affects men equally and nearly 3% of leaders. It doesn't go to affect developers and people working in technical jobs in IT. It manifests itself in the form of a small voice, which battle us. Some people are convinced that they don't deserve their success despite the effort they make to succeed. They often convince themselves that their success is not weighted to their work, to their personal fulfillment, but simply to the look or the work of others. In fact, she lives permanently with a feeling of dissent and they are constantly afraid that someone will unmask them from one day to another. You know this inner voice that maybe tells you that your work says that you're not as good as others, that you have nothing to teach to others. This little inner voice is one. We'll see some tips to fight this syndrome. Rule number one, knowledges, skills, wins, you have. We are very good as human to self-coach ourselves, but much less to find qualities. You can start by listing your achievements, knowledges, skills, learn so far. Think back to the day when you had trouble in debugging a problem and you have managed to find a solution. Maybe it was so much, but it's important to remember those times. To put them black and white, why not make a main map? A main map is like a list, but it makes both parts of the rain work. It's convenient to make decisions and, in our case, to know where we are. There are no small ones. Our mistakes are there to allow us to be better and we learn through them. Rule number two, friends, peers, communities, you will find. Be well-suited. Be part of a community where you can exchange and communicate. Personally, being a duchess has allowed me to feel surrounded and supported by other people. It allowed me to push back the limit that I set myself and to achieve things that I never imagined, like being here in front of you. So we are stronger together. You can't know everything and that's OK. Learn from your peers, from a mentor, a role model. Rule number three, share and contribute. You can write articles, cheat sheets in your personal blog, in a company blog, on websites, on specialized magazines. This will allow you to deepen your knowledge and you will find that you know more than you think. Speak at the conference, give a talk. First, at work, then at a meet-up, at technical conferences, you can go step-by-step to get started. You can transmit your passion to children during a coding for kids event by making intention in high school, college, and to people in professional retraining during coding cocktail for example. These meetings are always very enriching for the others and for you. Contribute to open source projects in GitHub for example. You can start by fixing the documentation, spelling mistakes, fixing bugs, and adding new features. There is no small contribution. Or simply tweet what you just learned, even if you think everyone knew it before you. Who knew that? Who knew that? One? Yes. Rule number four, feedback. Whether it's validation, you'll ask for feedback. But avoid asking for external validation. There is a difference. Give a talk on topics you feel confident at first. Rule number five, peer programming. You will do a two-several. It allows you to improve your skills and those of your colleagues. For example, you can work on a new feature and you will learn from your colleague and your colleague will learn from you as well. Rule number six, trust in you, you will have. Don't try to copy others. Be yourself, stay yourself. Have confidence in yourself, in your ideas, in your abilities. The little story in 2020, during the first lockdown on Saturday or Sunday, just after eating, I was in my equipment. I took my old tablet and I wonder how I represent a pod. OK, well, so I draw pokeballs. OK, so for me, a pod is like a pokeball and inside it, we can have one or more containers. OK, it's one, but OK. And I would have never imagined the next that people on a pod love it. That people love my way of explaining complex technical things. And then I would have written three sketched books, created two series of videos about a talker and commentator on YouTube. And since August, I created an illustrated book about Kubernetes, which is in a proper bike, in a wheel on Amazon. And I even gave a talk about Kubernetes without PC, without slides, with pokeballs, boxes. And just imagination, creativity, and with greater speakers who are French. And if I wouldn't have listened to my imagination to draw pokeballs. And if I shared on Twitter, none of this would have happened. So one of the message I want to share with you is trust yourself, try things, and share to others. Rule number seven, positive you'll have to. Well, rather than calling on things you can do on negative feedbacks or comments you may have had at work or at technical conferences, focus on the positive about what the current people are saying. I am going to tell you, yes, a little story. In 2019, in a very, very big conference in France, I had a comment that hurt me a lot. I translated for you, so we are at the box. Sorry. But it's not the right place for a speech therapy workshop. So I created a talk. I worked for four months every night, but I had this comment. Yes, it hurt me a lot. And during the one month, I said to myself, I am not a speaker. I can't be a speaker because I am a stutterer. But in the end, I listened to my colleagues, to my nice people, one me, that tell me to continue and further alert. I continue. Further alert. So yes, so being positive helps you move forward. Rule number eight, accept yourself. You have to. An important topic. You can't be an expert in containers. Java, Rust, Go, JavaScript, functional programming, serverless, CI, CD, garbage, collector, nobody can. And you don't have to be perfect. Nobody is. Do you find yourself voided in a particular skill? Cool. Read on this subject, deepen it, and invest a little time. And the little voice that tells you that you are bad will totally leave your head. You submitted a talk, and you were not accepted. You did not have the job you hoped for. It does not matter. Rejection is not a failure, and we must accept it. I will tell you a second story. A few years ago, I wanted to do a master degree. It happened in two stages. One, I got my diploma of advanced technician. It's a BTS from France. So I was taken for the first step. Cool. And then I went to the interview in another city. And I entered the room. And I see eight people in front of me. Eight people. Wow. So stressed. And yes, I was so stressed. And yes, I have started a lot. And at one point, one of the jury stopped me and took me off and said, you don't know how to speak. OK. So it was a finish. And yes, this reached me a lot. But that did not stop me from doing a job I love every day since 16, 17 years without the precious master degree. So if you don't have the right degree from the rest school, don't limit yourself to that. It is possible to get there. Yes, it's more difficult, but it's possible. And I always have a huge admiration for people in a professional retraining. And I don't know if there are some HR in the world. But don't focus in the right degree because the risk is being to miss great candidates and, above all, great people all motivated. There is a quote from Nelson Mandela that I love. I never lose. I either win or learn. And that's true. We learn from our failure, our mistakes, and our experience. The imposter syndrome should not be a taboo subject. It is important to talk about it, to transform this firm into a stranger. We feel alone, and it's first, we are not alone. And I promise that the most of the colleagues and the speakers you love and you know, they suffer from this syndrome. So you have to accept what you feel, use it, and talk about it. And I was very happy to hear this syndrome in an episode of Big Bang Theory TV show. It's so cool. World number nine. Be proud of yourself. You have to. It took me 36 years to dare to say, to be able to say, I am proud of myself. And still, it's not easy, but it's very important to say it. You can be proud of yourself. And you should be proud of yourself. In our job, we tend to be told when we've done something stupid, when things are going badly, but not when the job is well done. So don't make the same mistake I did. And don't wait to say it. We are all different. We all have our own experience. And we can be proud of what we have achieved. What this syndrome brings you is, above all, humility. This is a great quality for a developer and people in a general. It doesn't matter if you don't know how to answer a question, but it's important to say it because other people are in the same situation as you and don't dare to do it. The imposter syndrome is not a fatality. Use it to improve and prove to yourself that you are good. You do not disappoint anyone, neither the others, and nor you. The imposter syndrome is a good thing. It can push you to surpass yourself, learn a new technology, teach two others, being a speaker, and suffering from this syndrome, reflect the fact that you are great people. So remember, stop listening to the little voice or use it for a positive way because you are a legitimate. Thank you very much. I like your feedbacks. Still? Well, still. So don't hesitate to give me and just scan the QR code. Thank you. I don't know if I have time, but people are angry. So if anyone has questions, I can run the mic up over to you. Great. Oh. You have a few minutes. I have one that we were talking about earlier. Why do we need to talk about imposter syndrome so much in the tech field? Why is imposter syndrome such a problem in tech and development? In tech, yeah, because in tech, everything is going quickly. There is a very new technology every hour. And we tend to have the feeling that we should know everything. And in a job of form, you want the dev, tech, ops, data, and it's not possible, everything. And another thing is there are people every time stop to do it. We are all different, and it's good. The difference is the power. So stop it. Stop it. Do you have any thoughts on how you measure your own improvements so you know that you're in the right direction? I don't know. You're forward. I guess my question was, do you have any guidance on how you track your own improvements so you know that you're moving in the right direction? It's like, I mean, so you mentioned you had a lot of great nuggets there that have confidence, speak up in different events. I'm just wondering if there is some way that you can tell you so that you're in the right direction. Yeah, I mean, this is how you should be proceeding. Talk to your kind of cowing people because we are very hard to do to yourself. But the nicer people will always see if you are going to the right direction. So don't talk to them, you. But the kind of cowing people, and if you want to create a talk to teach them to do it, think that you love simply. Thank you. Thank you. We're out of time, so thank you so much for your talk. Will you be available outside to answer any other questions if people have them? OK. Thank you. Thank you.