The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: ‘I’m a fraud! Oh god, they’re on to me! I’m a fraud!
The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.
Men of all ages must commit to changing the leadership ratios. They can start by actively seeking out qualified female candidates to hire and promote. And if qualified candidates cannot be found, then...
Women need to shift from thinking I’m not ready to do that to thinking I want to do that—and I’ll learn by doing it. My
When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life might have been if she had been born half a century later.
Millennial women are less likely than Millennial men to agree that the statement I aspire to a leadership role in whatever field I ultimately work descried them very well. Millennial women were also l...
Women need to shift from thinking I'm not ready to do that to thinking I want to do that--and I'll learn by doing it.
Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.
When a kid struggles at math, instead of saying, Maybe math isn’t one of your strengths, Dweck recommends, The feeling of math being hard is the feeling of your brain growing.
The ability to forge a unique path with occasional dips, detours, and even dead ends presents a better chance for fulfillment. Plus, a jungle gym provides great views for many people, not just those a...
When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people...
Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success. Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a dou...
Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.
HAVING IT ALL. Perhaps the greatest trap ever set for women was the coining of this phrase. Bandied about in speeches, headlines, and articles, these three little words are intended to be aspirational...
To really care about others, we have to understand them - what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recogniz...
In fact, these bad mother with a briefcase images are so prevalent that writer Jessica Valenti collected them in a funny and poignant blog post called Sad White Babies with Mean Feminist Mommies.25
Finding God or a higher power reminds us that we are not the center of the universe. There is much we don’t understand about human existence, and there is order and purpose to it anyway. It helps us f...
If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got luck...
We can start by helping children develop four core beliefs: (1) they have some control over their lives; (2) they can learn from failure; (3) they matter as human beings; and (4) they have real streng...
Anyone lucky enough to have options should keep them open. Don't enter the workforce already looking for the exit. Don't put on the breaks. Accelerate. Keep a foot on the gas pedal until a decision mu...
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