Careers Are A Jungle Gym, Not A

Feeling Confident - Or Pretending That You Feel Confident - Is Necessary To Reach For Opportunities. It's A Cliché, But Opportunities Are Rarely Offered; They're Seized.

If I Had To Embrace A Definition Of Success, It Would Be That Success Is Making The Best Choices We Can ... And Accepting Them.

I Had Heard That When People Lost People, There Was Anger. But I Definitely Experienced It A Lot More Than I Was Prepared For It. Anger Was Not Something I'd Ever Really Felt In My Life And I Was Not Prepared For It.

We Hold Ourselves Back In Ways Both Big And Small, By Lacking Self-confidence, By Not Raising Our Hands, And By Pulling Back When We Should Be Leaning In.

And In Situations Where A Man And A Woman Each Receive Negative Feedback, The Woman's Self-confidence And Self-esteem Drop To A Much Greater Degree. The Internalization Of Failure And The Insecurity It Breeds Hurt Future Performance, So This Pattern Has Serious Long-term Consequences.