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    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by her popular TED Talk, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code urges women to embrace imperfection and live a bolder, more authentic life.
     
    “A timely message for women of all ages: Perfection isn’t just impossible but, worse, insidious.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit
     
    Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes. Imagine if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path?
     
    As women, too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, pass up opportunities that scare us, and avoid rejection at all costs.
     
    There’s a reason we act this way, Saujani says. As girls, we were taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers praised us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn’t get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. As a result, we grew up to be women who are afraid to fail. 
     
    It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness.
     
    By choosing bravery over perfection, we can find the power to claim our voice, to leave behind what makes us unhappy, and to go for the things we genuinely, passionately want. Perfection may set us on a path that feels safe, but bravery leads us to the one we’re authentically meant to follow. In Brave, Not Perfect,Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to help us let go of our need for perfection and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our best and most joyful life.
    What would America look like if it valued moms? From the New York Times bestselling author and founder of Girls Who Code, a bold plan to make motherhood visible, compensated, and powerful.

    After years advocating for women and girls to smash glass ceilings and blaze their own trails, Reshma Saujani found herself on the floor of her bathroom, exhausted from trying to balance infinite responsibilities. She wasn’t alone. America’s 90 million mothers are in crisis.

    Globally, women lost $800 billion in wages last year. Unemployment among women rose from 3.1 percent to nearly 15 percent. Anxiety among mothers tripled, and almost 70 percent of mothers reported a decline in physical health due to stress. Decades of failed social movements focused on workforce parity have left mothers overwhelmed and under-resourced.

    Saujani has a solution: The Marshall Plan for Moms—a proposal to compensate mothers for their unseen, unpaid labor.

    In Pay Up, the New York Times bestselling author lays out a bold set of plans to recast motherhood, including government payments to moms, dramatic shifts in workplace policy, and radical culture change. And she gives voice to moms themselves, interviewing hundreds of women who are tired of shouldering more and more responsibility, only to be told that the solution is to find “me-time” or to “lean in.” In doing so, she realizes that the ideal of a 50-50 partnership in the home is a lie, and that overwork is a path to burnout, unhappiness, and rage.

    Both a call to action for government and business leaders and a bold critique of 20th-century feminism, Pay Up is a demand for help from the millions of women who need it.
    TED TALK 450萬點閱超人氣演說家

    世界經濟論壇的全球傑出領袖

    全球最具影響力女性之一──雷舒瑪‧索雅妮的鼓舞人心之作

     

    「我們教導女孩要追求完美,但是教導男孩要勇敢無畏。」(We’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising our boys to be brave.)哪裡不對嗎?

     

    這個訊息簡明扼要,從孩提時代到成年期,女孩(和女人)被推向追求完美之路。她們被教導在學業成績、行為舉止、生涯選擇、外表儀容、風氣態度,必須致力做到完善盡美。

     

    本書作者雷舒瑪‧索雅妮,生自一個印度移民家庭的女兒,跟每個女孩一樣,用功考高分、讀頂尖學校,但是這條自小被要求追求事事完美的路,簡直是一場悲劇。她最後選擇不完美,做出勇敢與冒險的事情:離開令人稱羨的高薪工作,成為第一位走進國會的印裔美籍女人。

     

    在2012年,33歲的她參選紐約市參議員,選情輸得很慘,落選。她在本書中無意探討失敗的重要性,卻很慶幸自己選擇一條勇敢之徑闖一闖。她的確輸了一場選戰,可是贏了人生賽局。

     

    選舉敗仗的同年,她創辦了一個非盈利機構「寫程式的女孩」(Girls Who Code),其目標是教導一百萬名女孩寫程式,縮減科技業的性別差距。當她與年輕女孩緊密相處,以及透過寬闊網絡結識啟發人靈感的女人,她逐漸瞭解:我們的社會在教育男孩與女孩適應生活,存有根本的不同。

     

    我們教育男孩要大膽嘗試、不懼危險、勇往直前,而女孩應該要乖巧聽話、避免危險,甚至追求完美展現,然而這樣「完美」的教育,卻不必然引導女孩們邁向「完美的人生」。這些包在女孩身上的泡泡紙,雖然用愛與關懷製成,讓人難以拒絕,卻也使得女孩們與風險隔離的同時,失去了逐夢的能力。

     

    這種趨使人逃離危險、追求完美的力量,使得女孩們把自己累個半死,最後只是把自己搞得精疲力盡、面如枯槁甚至生病,只因為我們得為了他人付出許多精力。當我們在知道自己應該發聲時保持沈默,或是當我們在真心想說不,但因為害怕不受人喜愛時說好,對我們的自尊無疑是一記重擊。當我們擺出虛有其表的完美時,我們的人際關係與內心都會蒙受損失;我們設下保護罩,不讓人看到我們的瑕疵與脆弱,但這也讓我們跟所愛的人之間隔出一道牆,也讓我們無法建立起真正有意義與可信可靠的連結。

     

    想像一下,假使妳不用對失敗有所恐懼、不用對不權衡情勢而產生恐懼的活著。假使妳不再感覺有抑制想法的需要,也不用為了取悅與安撫他人而吞下妳真正想說的話,假使妳能夠不再因為一些人為的錯誤而嚴厲指責自己,放下罪惡感以及試圖表現完美而把自己壓得喘不過氣,平靜的呼吸。有沒有可能,妳在面對每一個抉擇時,都做出勇敢的選擇,或走向那條大膽的路。妳會更開心嗎?妳會用妳夢想自己能做到的方式對世界產生衝擊嗎?

     

    放下那份無法達到完美的恐懼比妳想像的更簡單。只要好好練習運用妳擁有的那份勇敢即可。這也是本書的中心主旨。它會檢視並連結到過去我們不惜任何代價追求完美並避免失敗的樣貌,以及少女時期的想法這份連結,是如何箝制我們成人後的生活。最重要的是,要如何重置這份連結。永遠都不嫌晚,只要放下追求完美這份需求,並重新鍛鍊自己的勇氣,我們每個人都能夠敢於挑戰專屬自己的那個難以置信之事。

     

     

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