People keep waiting for the feeling
of finally belonging.
The moment they'll feel like a real engineer.
A real senior. A real expert.
I've mentored people at every level.
The feeling rarely arrives.
The doubt doesn't mean you're a fraud.
It means you care,
and you can see how much there is to know.
The most capable people I know
still feel it before hard things.
They just stopped waiting for it to go away.
You don't beat impostor syndrome.
You act while it's talking.
Confidence isn't the absence of doubt.
It's moving forward with it in the room.
– Asael Shinder
