Claire Walkley is a colleague at Thoughtworks UK and gave a talk entitled “How I made friends with my imposter syndrome”. She shared the lessons learnt and how she manages her own professional development.
I laughed out loud in the first part in which she described how she felt when she found out she was working with rockstar technologists. It is also how I feel working in Thoughtworks.
Some of these rockstars are a google chat message away; they appear in the same Zoom call in global townhall meetings; we receive emails from them soliciting opinions and experiences. I do not have to be on the same project as them to feel the same as Claire.
Despite my previous blog post on how I overcame imposter syndrome, perhaps, it is simply a never-ending story of pushing ourselves past our comfort zone because we continuously seek to grow.