My hope is that my message will be judged on its merits. I have heard these criticisms in the past and I know that I will hear them - and others - in the future. Show respect and gratitude for your partner’s work. * After discussion with Amy: it’s not important to have an equal “50-50 split” on household chores or whatever. I do not believe that there is one definition of success or happiness. Work on what you can control and it’ll reflect in the world around you. It’s not just the institution or the situation or a million external forces holding you back. These internal obstacles deserve a lot more attention. I rarely heard anything, however, about the ways I might hold myself back. I’d rationalize it as “reading the room,” when what I should do is lean in more. *how many times in mid-conversation, or a pitch, if I even get a hint that their eyes are glazing over, do I pull back? The moment I felt like I may be imposing, I back off. 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. Some highlights below, my notes in italics: I will say this for LEAN IN: the book opens with huge promise. Hardly outside the realm of possibilities. I thought it was going to pull a reverse psychology trick on me, like, “Here’s this book that seems like it’s just a book about how women are treated differently in the work place… but it’s actually much more than that… except, it’s actually not.” The more I dig into Sheryl Sandberg’s LEAN IN, the more it feels like a gender studies book. Last updated on March 9th, 2019 at 04:02 pm
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