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Bring Your Whole Self To Work. I Don't Believe We Have A Professional Self Monday Through Friday And A Real Self The Rest Of The Time. It Is All Professional And It Is All Personal.

After My Husband, Dave, Died, I Called My Friend Adam, A Psychologist Who Studies How People Find Meaning In Our Lives, And I Asked Him What, If Anything, I Could Do To Help Myself And My Kids Get Through This. We Started Talking About Resilience, Then Reading About It, Then Talking To Other People Who Had Gotten Through Grief And Other Huge Challenges. In Time, Those Conversations And That Research Helped Me Heal.

And Anyway, Who Wears A Tiara On A Jungle Gym?

A Woman, If You're Most Intelligent Or Most Likely To Succeed, That's An Embarrassing Thing. Or Something That's Not Considered Attractive, And I Think That's What We Need To Change.

My Goal Is Very Clear, And I Wrote About It In Lean In, Which Is That Women Run Half Our Companies And Countries And Men Run Half Our Homes. As Much As I Wish That Could Happen In Four Years, I Don't Think That's A Likely Time Period. But I Think It Can Happen Sooner Than We Think. Part Of It Is Having That Aspiration And That Goal. I Think We Too Often Suffer From The Tyranny Of Low Expectations.