＃TED-010＃第25周打卡

TS TS 2016-07-12 01:28 阅读(2555)

3 lessons on success from an Arab businesswoman

In United Arab Emirates, women still have much less power than men. The speaker was bored in Lebanon, who is the younger of two daughters to a very hard-working pilot and director of operations for the Lebanese Airlines and a super-supportive stay-at-home mom and grandma. She was lucky that her father send her to school, and even left home at 18 to study abroad.

Arab women have had to juggle more than Arab men, and they have had to mace more cultural rigidity than Western women. She learned three lessons.

1) Convert their shit into your fuel

resilience: 适应力，弹性

She believes resilience is simply the ability to transform shit into fuel.

Women can have two options, either decide to internalise those negative messages that are being thrown at you, to let them make you feel like a failure; or choose to see that others’ negativity is their own issues, and instead transform it into your own personal fuel.

Success is the best revenge.

2) work your life

As a business woman, she has to make sure that the house is running smoothly while she is at work, and make sure to empower the nanny in the most optimal conditions for her and her children.

Choose very carefully, and empower

3) Join forces, don’t compete

Traditionally, there are almost none of women in politics in the Arab world. Lately years, the UAE appointed five new female ministers to its cabinet, for a total of eight female ministers. They help each other to make better life. Not fast, but they are moving.