Name: 偽者のように感じずに自信を持ち続けること - David Whittaker - JSConf US 2019 (Staying confident without feeling like an imposter - David Whittaker - JSConf US 2019)
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So as Katie said I'm David Whittaker and I spent about half my career teaching math,

which is something that made me think about confidence quite a bit and the other half

writing software and right now I work at Qualcomm and I'm a program manager and developer and

work on Node, Xpress, JS, that kind of stuff.

So let's talk about what we're going to cover today.

And third, I want to get over and break out of that self-doubt infinite loop.

So let's talk about some ways to do that.

Over four years ago, I was thinking about these thoughts, wondering what's happening

in my field, and where I fit in, and why I felt this way and so I made this really crude

diagram and it's not even aligned properly, but I just did it to help me understand my

own thoughts and it got a lot of traction and when Wil Wheaton retweeted it, I thought

So I kind of want to unpack this a little bit more, especially in the tech world, because

as we learn what's out there and the frameworks that are available and the new technology,

we know that the things that we don't know starts to get larger and larger.

And what I hope you'll leave with is it's the intersections of the things that you do

know and don't know, your inner perspective that brings you value.

Researchers tell us that about 70% of folks feel this way and I'd venture to guess that

in the tech world it's probably a lot more, because we're surrounded by smart people and

we are constantly bombarded with new thoughts and new ideas.

I like to think of confidence as on a spectrum and any given day we'll move back and forth

on this spectrum, depending on where we are in our lives and in our career.

So on the left here we have the, you know, very low confidence, my work's never good

And on the right, we have the really high, maybe overly confident person, who's always

perfect and thinks they're smarter than everyone, and they should be the one in charge.

Now I want to talk about what reality is.

So the real competence, so if we have a mismatch here between the way -- the way you feel about

the world, your confidence in your work, and your actual competence, then there's a danger

here of what we're calling Imposter Syndrome.

Of course there could be a mismatch in the other connection, which is the Dunning Kruger

effect, where you're really highly confident but not really highly competent.

So today we're going to talk about this particular mismatch, where you have a low confidence

going into something, but really you are very competent, which I venture to guess most of

So some signs that we see here, you know, downplaying accomplishments, you're feeling

that everything you're doing that is successful is luck, you're not sure if you're good enough

to work here, everyone seems really smarter than me, this could all lead to some negative

Your work suffers, you may even suffer physical things, like ulcers, back pain, migraines,

anxiety, relationship issues, all because of this fear and anxiety.

In 2011 Dr. Valerie Young, talked about five confidence types which I like to call personas

that kind of embody the different ways that Imposter Syndrome can manifest itself.

The first way we see here is this perfectionist.

Someone who sets extremely high expectations for themselves impossible to reach, and every

time they make a small mistake, they question their own competence.

The expert, someone who feels like they have to know everything complete all the details

before they'll even start a project, apply for a job or do anything, they're afraid to

ask questions, even, because asking questions might reveal a bit of their own incompetence.

The natural genius when they grow up, things came easy, so when things don't come easy,

feel like they are a failure, the soloist must do everything on their own and if I have

to ask for help, I'm not confident and finally the super human who feels like I really have

to compensate for my incompetence by working really hard around the clock.

So which one of these do you most relate to?

At least at some point and I kind of move back and forth between these things.

So I want to talk a little bit about bias.

And bias is a lot like a colored lens that changes the inputs that we get from the real

world, and stores them in our brain in a different way than we actually received them.

And you see that red dot, the congruent belief, is something that is already consistent with

our current belief system, our current feelings.

That is fast-tracked right to the right, right into the brain, yes, I knew that was correct,

The other ones take a little bit more time and when we get a congruent belief that makes

our belief system even bigger, even stronger.

We'll even look for things that are consistent with our current beliefs.

And the confirmation bias will also take contradictory beliefs and just reject them completely.

We won't even bring them in as a proper input.

So I like this cartoon, it says, I love your work: Oh, they're family, they're supposed

to say that, oh, they're friends they have to say that, they're strangers, they have

And when I saw this tweet, I like to read the comments and one person said, oh, you

missed a frame and so they created this frame.

This is confirmation bias, both sides of it, and really like their response.

So to compensate for this, what I want you to do is create a positive feedback board.

So any time you get some positive feedback, I know it may not register correctly, write

Put it on your wall, and just save it there for later.

You shouldn't expect other people to write these notes for you, but write them for yourself.

Just write your note, you did a great job on that project.

It doesn't how you feel about it on that point, just write it on your wall.

The next time you need a boost of confidence, look at your positive feedback board.

Now, if you've ever seen the awkward Yeti, you'll note that all of their cartoons have

So the brain is saying to the heart the feelings: Maybe it would be easier if we put this down.

So what I want to kind of talk about is that this self-doubt becomes this coping mechanism

that helps us deal with the fact that we may not be able to live up to this high standard

And let's go through what happens with someone that has maybe a lower confidence.

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