Bravery Over Perfection In the TED Talk “Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection” by Reshma Saujani, Saujani addresses the fact that as little girls are growing up, we begin to introduce them to the idea of being perfect rather than the idea of being brave. Saujani starts the TED Talk by talking about the one time she stepped out of her comfort zone and ran for Congress. In 2012, Saujani made the decision to go from a fundraiser and organizer behind the scenes to a running candidate for a seat in Congress. When Saujani is talking about her personal experience of a time when she stepped out of her comfort zone, she mentions the comments and feedback that she had received from those around her. A vast majority of those comments referred to Saujani
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By starting this company, Saujani found that when she had introduced them to coding, she had opened the door that would allow them to be comfortable with being brave and taking risks, rather than being perfect. Coding, which can be considered as a trial and error process, is about trying to get information in the right place with something such as a semicolon that sets apart success from failure. In order for the girls to code, it requires them to persevere, to be imperfect and to work through it with confidence that they can do it. By starting this company and by teaching their girls to code, Saujani and her employees could immediately recognize the girls fears of not getting the code right and their fears of not being perfect. Saujani mentions that because the girls have the undeniable fear of failing or not being perfect, they give themselves two options when it comes to writing code. Being perfect or not trying at all. The girls feel that showing no work at all is better than failing and being imperfect. This goes to show that girls are willing to lower themselves and their work quality due to their fears of being imperfect, while boys continue to work hard in order to overcome a challenge that they have been faced
By starting this company, Saujani found that when she had introduced them to coding, she had opened the door that would allow them to be comfortable with being brave and taking risks, rather than being perfect. Coding, which can be considered as a trial and error process, is about trying to get information in the right place with something such as a semicolon that sets apart success from failure. In order for the girls to code, it requires them to persevere, to be imperfect and to work through it with confidence that they can do it. By starting this company and by teaching their girls to code, Saujani and her employees could immediately recognize the girls fears of not getting the code right and their fears of not being perfect. Saujani mentions that because the girls have the undeniable fear of failing or not being perfect, they give themselves two options when it comes to writing code. Being perfect or not trying at all. The girls feel that showing no work at all is better than failing and being imperfect. This goes to show that girls are willing to lower themselves and their work quality due to their fears of being imperfect, while boys continue to work hard in order to overcome a challenge that they have been faced