 Imposter syndrome. Yeah, which is something I think in our Field of work is talked about a lot and it's brought up a lot We're like everybody around me is so good and I feel like I'm not actually that good Like I just said like you say my low-level notch is better than yours But then again, I basically dropped out of my masters and I feel like I I failed that as well So you did a masters though, right? I didn't know I didn't I did my bachelor Out of a master's okay, but any masters you did is more masters I think that's why you're tweeting about this and I Was agreeing with you a lot because you said there's like a certain sense that we talk about it almost too much Well, I feel like it's a lot of It feels like people are using it as a positive trait And I used to do the same like thinking well, it's a sort of form of modesty, right? You're sort of saying like I don't feel good enough to be here You know and and and maybe in some ways that other people seeing that will go Oh, well if that person doesn't feel like they deserve to be here then then I you know my feelings and maybe fake as well Maybe it's this imposter syndrome thing But the thing that got me thinking is that if you have that mindset and you encounter someone who you know Maybe whether the new or their skills just in another area, but they're struggling with a particular thing I worry that if you kind of really dig into that mindset that you don't belong When you see someone who you could subjectively sort of say they know less than I do Then ago they deserve even less to be here You know and that might have you can put yourself on a spot where you actually Will end up not being encouraging for someone who is just learning Yeah, because the bad part is it comes with and I don't deserve to be here Yeah, there was a thread that went around on Twitter like a few months ago now. I think but it was People saying hi, I have this high position of authority or you know this this job and I can't Do something that that might be relatively basic to some and I actually I thought that Fred had all of the benefits Of like so, you know other people could say oh, well, you know I mean I should stop worrying about what I know because yeah, but it didn't have that and I don't deserve to be That's the bit. It's not it shouldn't be up to you decide if you deserve to be at your workplace that's what the interview process is for that what the colleagues are for and I'm very grateful that I have colleagues who keep encouraging me and all their other colleagues that Everybody is here with a good reason and has the right skill level and absolutely and since I keep learning from basically all my colleagues Everything is fine. I think if we just stop Deducing ourselves if we don't deserve to be somewhere will be in a better place mentally already Absolutely, and I think if yes, especially if if you genuinely don't think you belong There's definitely an encouragement to kind of close yourself in to not yeah be found out You know and not talk openly but on that Twitter Fred what I said was like, you know I go I use MDN to look up API's I designed. Oh, are you one of the service worker designers? I don't know if you know But in some reply to me when does that actually more mean that your API is a badly designed No, it means I have the memory of a human being you know there's like there's always so much I can remember and especially if I know I can look it up. I'm like yeah, that's because I have this worry that if I I Have a finite amount of space in my brain, right? And if I push too much stuff in something else will fall out. So like if I if I learn How to do pointers in C then that might push out how to breathe Or something many people have died from just forgetting to breathe in the past C has killed many Learning C has a yeah, it's a droid many lives But like, you know, if I if I can look it up easily then and I think that that's actually really good trade It's something that I always thought about is it could be like you try to Minimize the amount you actually have to keep in your head and delegate the things out to things You can either look up or you can deduce which is very mathematical actually where you like you just Remember the axioms and from there you can go anywhere you want in terms of knowledge if you really need to learn something by heart It will happen automatically because you keep have to use it over and over anyway through real usage not just kind of like Yeah, because I keep using flexbox. I know now. I now know all the flexbox properties, right? I didn't sit down and memorize them hang on Justify is the horizontal one if it's a row and Align items is the vertical here's how I remember it, you know how in in like Word or any kind of text wasn't you have the justify buttons left justified right justified? Yes, so that basically makes Text that flows adjust to the right or to the left and Flexbox has no way that's amazing, right? Okay, so that so justify is the horizontal one If you're in a row and it's it moves the elements in inline direction. That's amazing And the align is for the actual To film anymore like that that is that's the one, you know you that's Do you know what you can say? I made it based based on that. That's that's that's it That is that is a piece of knowledge. I have failed to grasp my entire career And I will remember it now because of that because of the word buttons When I learned English I Often heard this phrase a for effort, but I also often heard people spelling their names with like the NATO Radio alphabet they say s for Sierra and for November right and I was like a for effort