Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.
Interpretation
Recognizing and acknowledging your true abilities is essential to closing the gap in self-confidence.
In this quote, Katty Kay emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and honesty regarding one's skills and talents. Often, individuals underestimate their abilities due to self-doubt or external pressures, which hinders their confidence and potential. By being truthful about what we can do, we empower ourselves to overcome insecurities and thrive.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, I could use this quote to encourage self-acceptance.
Every woman dreams of a workplace where her boss doesn't suggest they grab a drink after work, where there isn't that colleague you'd just rather not get stuck in the office with alone and where your job prospects don't depend, however subtly, on whether you put up with lascivious comments from a man who has power over you.
Economists argue about the relative impact of immigrants versus robots on wage stagnation - voters don't care much. They blame immigrants. It's easier to get mad at a person from Macedonia or Mexico, taking your job than it is to get mad at a piece of technology from Silicon Valley.
Ive lived and worked in developing countries so Im particularly interested in helping women in oppressive societies. Our problems can pale in comparison to theirs, the more we can do to empower them, the better off all women will be.
I honestly do not know a woman, in any profession, at any level, who has not at some point, often at many points, had to repudiate the unwanted advances of a man they've worked with or for. We shouldn't have to.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Had our hearts been pure, we would never tire with the Dhikr of Allaah.
I think you have to be what you are. Don't try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself at all times.
You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
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