Now showing
Comfort zone and impostor feelings (in the snow)
About this film
In this 40+ minute walk I talk about how we think of our self in relation to things we are familiar with and others that remain unknown to us. Fundamentally, the idea is how we rationalise our inhibitions as the best we could ever get. The talking points in outline: I started thinking about the comfort zone and impostor feelings after I received an award from the Free Software Foundation for my contributions to Emacs and free software. How can someone with my non-technical background make contribute to a technical milieu? How can someone get out of their comfort zone and basically declare in public “hey, I do not actually know this!”? The basic idea that helped me overcome my fears is to entertain the worst case scenario. What could possibly go wrong if I am incompetent in my technical endeavours? The answer usually is that nothing major will happen and we are misjudging the extent of the issue. Explanation of the tension that arises between our actual imperfections and the pretences on faultlessness that we have. At its core, we base our conduct on the lie that we can be something other than a human: a fallible being. The comfort zone can be a prison cell. We may be treating the r…
Directors & creators
Protesilaos Stavrou
More from this pool