A presentation at the North Central Developers Festival 2017

1. BUILDING
CONFIDENCE AS A
DEVELOPER
HASSAN SANI
I love to do things I don’t understand
You can find me on
@iNidAName @iNidAName @iNidAName

2. Let’s Begin

3. Impostor syndrome (also known as
impostor phenomenon or fraud
syndrome) is a concept describing
individuals who are marked by an
inability to internalize their
accomplishments and a persistent fear
of being exposed as a “fraud".
-Source Wikipedia
The Impostor Syndrome

4. Signs of the Impostor Syndrome
You Have Difficulty Accepting Praise You Tend to Discount Your Own Success

5. Signs of the Impostor Syndrome
You Over Work Yourself You always want to be at your Best

6. Signs of the Impostor Syndrome
You think it’s too easy — that anyone could
do it
You believe that what you’re doing is never
enough.

7. The Inception:
To Build a static Personal Page
After Tutorial:
Build a Todo App
Job Interview:
With a readable and reusable code using Brute
force algorithms build an API for a Scalable App,
allowing a total stranger to fetch Data.
Why this is common among
Developers.

8. The harmful effects of impostor
syndrome
• Under-compensate
• Negative self-evaluations
• Never finishing
• Active self-sabotage
Ultimate Consequences
• You lose opportunities.
• You get burn out.
• You sabotage your own personal development,
career or relationship.
• You don’t enjoy life
• You get depressed
• You’re Not Getting Any Work Done

9. What Impostor Syndrome is NOT
• It not about being over confidence

10. Have confidence that if you have done a
little thing well, you can do a bigger thing
well too. - David Storey
How to Over Come the Impostor
Syndrome
Accept Who You are

11. How to Over Come the Impostor
Syndrome
Attend Meet Up
• Most Importantly Eat the free food
• Ask Questions or Contribute

12. How to Over Come the Impostor
Syndrome
Build something and put it to the public
• Give access to feedbacks

13. How to Over Come the Impostor
Syndrome
Write a blog

14. How to Over Come the Impostor
Syndrome
Take A break
• Take a walk
• Take a run
• Go outside
• Eat something (food)
• Talk to friends and families
• Just do something that doesn’t
involve coding

15. How to Over Come the Impostor
Syndrome
Using Technical Issues
• Join Online Forum
• Ask/Contribute to online Forum
• Contribute to open source
• Code Code and Code
• Surround Yourself with positive
people
• and Again Believe in yourself

16. THANK YOU
iNidAName.github.io
@iNidAName @iNidAName @iNidAName