> Like many a woman before me, I had run smack into the confidence gap.
I was thinking about this lately. I realized, that among my friends, we have been playing this weird game of terrible insults and trying to appear the smartest guy in the room since we were 10. We still do it while in pub some-times :)
Interestingly, girls never wanted to participate. I remember talking to one of my friends in High School where she told me how terrible one of my friends was, where he was always ridiculing her. I tried to explain, that this was normal among that particular group of friends, and that she should ridicule him back. She thought that attempting that wasn't worth the time and effort, because the result of her trying to flip the ridicule would probably be just more ridicule towards her. My thoughts were, yes, it took me 3 years to learn to endure the ridicule and fire back ... so, yeah, probably not worth it to get into this game, if you don't find it fun.
But as a esult, with this way we were trying to one-up each other for better part of a decade, of course "we were unfazed by any of the challenges professors might throw our way".
I was thinking about this lately. I realized, that among my friends, we have been playing this weird game of terrible insults and trying to appear the smartest guy in the room since we were 10. We still do it while in pub some-times :)
Interestingly, girls never wanted to participate. I remember talking to one of my friends in High School where she told me how terrible one of my friends was, where he was always ridiculing her. I tried to explain, that this was normal among that particular group of friends, and that she should ridicule him back. She thought that attempting that wasn't worth the time and effort, because the result of her trying to flip the ridicule would probably be just more ridicule towards her. My thoughts were, yes, it took me 3 years to learn to endure the ridicule and fire back ... so, yeah, probably not worth it to get into this game, if you don't find it fun.
But as a esult, with this way we were trying to one-up each other for better part of a decade, of course "we were unfazed by any of the challenges professors might throw our way".