Dealing with Imposter Syndrome - Short 134
HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs
Bryan Orr
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Bryan discusses impostor syndrome, what it is, and how it may actually be useful for us.
When we feel that we're frauds and that others wouldn't like to be led by us if they knew how much we don't know, we're experiencing impostor syndrome. Contrary to what others might believe, impostor syndrome isn't all that bad and may even be necessary for a healthy self-image.
On the other side, we have the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is when people are confident in the things they have very little actual knowledge of. They think they're experts and close themselves off to other sources of knowledge. On the other side of the Dunning-Kruger effect spectrum, true experts are acutely aware of what they still don't know. We would be wise to know what the edges of our knowledge are and give others a chance to share their expertise when we reach those limits.
When people learn more about a subject, they become much more aware of what they don't know. Wisdom comes from knowing what you don't know. However, if you feel that feeling of inferiority, you can still share the knowledge you have while seeking feedback and deferring to others who know more than you. (That's especially true of Bryan, who has a summary knowledge of industrial refrigeration and defers to others who know more about it.)
In the end, we're seeking authenticity and self-awareness. Rather than avoiding impostor syndrome, we can embrace it and understand how it can lead to self-awareness, wisdom, and especially self-improvement. "Fake it till you make it" can only help you up to a certain point.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo-Yo, this is the HVAC school podcast. I'm Brian. This is the podcast about how I really don't belong here and how nobody should be listening to a thing I have to say. |
| 0:15.0 | Actually it's a podcast about imposter syndrome which is essentially those feelings that a lot of us experience. |
| 0:21.0 | We're going to talk about that as well as a little bit about Dunning-Kruger, the difference, and you can maybe learn a little bit about yourself and also that you're not alone. So we'll see. Anyway, before we do that, let's hear from our great sponsors. |
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| 1:37.0 | All right, so let's first talk about imposter syndrome. |
| 1:41.2 | Now first off, you're most likely to experience imposter syndrome. Now first off you're most likely to experience imposter |
| 1:43.6 | syndrome when you are either doing something new or you are in a position of authority or |
| 1:50.2 | you're putting yourself out there in some way and |
| 1:53.0 | imposter syndrome is just simply the feeling that you are an imposter. |
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