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So many women that I talk to tell me that they gravitate towards careers or positions that they know theyre going to be great in, that they know theyre going to be perfect in. And its no wonder why. Most girls are taught to avoid failure and risk. To smile pretty, play it safe, get all As. Boys, on the other hand, are taught to play rough, swing high, crawl to the top of the monkey bars and then jump off head first.  By the time theyre adults and whether theyre negotiating a raise or even asking someone out on a date, men are habituated to take risk after risk. Theyre rewarded for it. Its often said in Silicon Valley that no one even takes you seriously unless youve had two failed startups. In other words, were raising our girls to be perfect and were raising our boys to be brave. Some people worry about our federal deficit. But I worry about our bravery deficit. Our economy, our society, were losing out because were not raising our girls to be brave. The bravery deficit is the reason why women are underrepresented in STEM, in C-suites, in boardrooms, in Congress, and pretty much everywhere you look.很多女性在交谈中告诉我，她们喜欢从事自己能胜任或做得完美的职业或职位。这也不足为奇。女孩从小就被教导要避免失败，规避风险。要微笑得体，谨慎行事，门门优秀。而在另一方面，男孩却被教导要玩得粗野，荡到高空，爬上猴架顶端，再纵身跃下。当他们成年之时，男性习惯于不断冒险，无论是要求加薪还是约某人出去，他们的冒险也时常得到回报。在硅谷人们常说倘若没经过两次创业的失败，没人会把你当回事。换言之，我们教育女孩要完美无缺，而教导男孩学会勇敢。有人担忧我们的联邦赤字，但我却忧心我们的勇气赤字。正因为我们没有教导女孩们学会勇敢，我们的经济，我们的社会才会不景气。我们的勇气赤字是导致在科学技术与工程数学领域，在高层管理人士中，在会议室里，在国会里，乃至任何所见之处都缺乏女性的原因。2 / 2