Your brain keeps the failures.
It files the wins under "luck"
and shreds them by Friday.
So on the bad day,
the evidence is one-sided.
Every mistake, none of the proof
that you're actually good at this.
Fight it with a document.
A plain file. Call it whatever.
Every time something goes right —
a fix, a thank-you, a shipped thing,
a problem only you could solve —
write one line and date it.
It feels silly on the good days.
It is a lifeline on the bad ones.
Because impostor syndrome
is a memory problem,
and this is your backup.
When the doubt gets loud,
open the file and read the truth
you'd otherwise have forgotten.
– Asael Shinder
