[pinton]

I felt this. Pair programming can be taxing in that you don't know if you come across to your partner as knowledgeable, or, as my friend recently put it, "a wind bag." My main weapon against impostor syndrome is to turn everything into a learning experience. The way I deal with it is to explain my thought process as deeply as possible, laying out all my cards on the table. This way, the other person/people can help me tweak my understanding as I speak, so I'll emerge from the experience better equipped to speak about the topic at hand. I feel that impostor syndrome will never go away, and in some ways this is a blessing because with it comes an everlasting desire to keep learning and stay humble.