(December 23, 2017 at 4:02 am)shadow Wrote:(December 23, 2017 at 2:35 am)Aegon Wrote: How small is small
Surmountable. Such that you can still achieve your goals if you are determined to do so.
This would vary by person, depending on how able they are naturally or what their circumstances allow. But, if the alternative is focusing on a weakness, already it would be more productive just to work hard and embrace the challenge. Winning is fun, but overcoming a challenge is so much better. And I think overcoming those challenges is the only way to actually change society - not on a level of what is politically correct, but on a level of how people actually behave. If we want more female CEOs or scientists, women going after those professions will cause that change more than anything else in impacting society's views and the actual numbers in those careers. It's one of my favorite sayings, be the change you wish to see in the world. Nothing embodies that better than literally defying some statistic that says that by odds you shouldn't be a CEO. The time for organized action, in my view, is when there are institutional barriers limiting people, not societal ones.
I think there are quite a few institutional barriers that people THINK are societal, but to give examples I need a cup of coffee.