Цитаты из книги Brave, Not Perfect

...parents and teachers tend to guve boys more "process praise", meaning they reward them for putting in effort, trying different strategies, sticking with it, and improving, rather than for the outcome. In the absence of this kind of process praise, girls come to believe that if they can't get something right away, they're dumb.

...for girls, failure is defined as anything that is less than the proverbial A+. It's black and white: you either totally rock or totally suck. To them, failure isn't just painful - it's colossal, devastating, and to be avoided at all costs. So if they can't rock it, they skip it.

I just felt like if I couldn't do it well, I didn't want to do it at all.

The problem is, when you work so hard to get everyone to like you, you very often end up not liking yourself so much. But once you learn to be brave enough to stop worrying about pleasing everyone else and put yourself first... that's when you become the empowered author of your own life.

...being a go-getter and being gutsy aren't necesarily the same.