成分英文Teach girls bravery not perfection

Teach girls bravery not perfection

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by

ShondaSaujani

So a few years ago,I did something really brave,or some would say really stupid.I ran for

Congress.

For years, I had existed safely behind the scenes in politicsas a fundraiser, as an organizer,but in

my heart, I always wanted to sitting congresswoman had been in my district since

had never lost a race,and no one had really even run against her in a Democratic in my

mind, this was my wayto make a difference,to disrupt the status polls, however, told a very

different pollsters told me that I was crazy to run,that there was no way that I could win.

But I ran anyway,and in 2012, I became an upstart in a New York City congressional race.I

swore I was going to win.I had the endorsement from the New York Daily News,the Wall Street

Journal snapped pictures of me on election day,and CNBC called it one of the hottest races in the

country.I raised money from everyone I knew,including Indian auntiesthat were just so happy an

Indian girl was on election day, the polls were right,and I only got 19 percent of the

vote,and the same papers that said I was a rising political starnow said I wasted 1.3 million dollarson

6,321 't do the was humiliating.

Now, before you get the wrong idea,this is not a talk about the importance of is it

about leaning in.I tell you the story of how I ran for Congressbecause I was 33 years oldand it was

the first time in my entire lifethat I had done something that was truly brave,where I didn't worry

about being perfect.

And I'm not alone:so many women I talk to tell methat they gravitate towards careers and

professionsthat they know they're going to be great in,that they know they're going to be perfect

in,and it's no wonder girls are taught to avoid risk and 're taught to smile

pretty,play it safe, get all A', on the other hand,are taught to play rough, swing high,crawl to

the top of the monkey bars and then just jump off by the time they're adults,whether

they're negotiating a raise or even asking someone out on a date,they're habituated to take risk after

're rewarded for 's often said in Silicon Valley,no one even takes you seriously unless

you've had two failed other words,we're raising our girls to be perfect,and we're raising

our boys to be brave.

Some people worry about our federal deficit,but I, I worry about our bravery

economy, our society, we're just losing outbecause we're not raising our girls to be bravery

deficit is why women are underrepresented in STEM,in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress,and

pretty much everywhere you look.

In the 1980s, psychologist Carol Dwecklooked at how bright fifth graders handled an

assignmentthat was too difficult for found that bright girls were quick to give

higher the IQ, the more likely they were to give boys, on the other hand,found the difficult

material to be a found it were more likely to redouble their efforts.