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And my daughter, who's three, when I dropped her off at preschool, did that whole hugging-the-leg, crying, "Mommy, don't get on the plane" thing.
So I'm not saying that staying in the workforce is the right thing for everyone.
Don't you love that kind of thing from college?
Because what the data shows, above all else, is one thing, which is that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.
The saddest thing about all of this is that it's really hard to remember this.
And I just find it so bizarre that she's suffering from the same thing that she tried so hard to protect people from.
But during that time, I realized that it was about projects and developing them on the local level that really was going to do the right thing for our communities.
But since then, the park that was just a dump and was featured at a TED2006 Talk became this little thing.
And she said, "But the thing I liked about your talk is you're a storyteller.
There's no such thing."
When I was a young researcher, doctoral student, my first year, I had a research professor who said to us, "Here's the thing, if you cannot measure it, it does not exist."
The thing that underpinned this was excruciating vulnerability.
And to me, the hard part of the one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection, was something that, personally and professionally, I felt like I needed to understand better.
My husband left town with the kids because I always go into this Jackson Pollock crazy thing, where I'm just writing and in my researcher mode.
The other thing that they had in common was this: They fully embraced vulnerability.
And so I said, "Here's the thing, I'm struggling."
And I said, "But here's the thing: no family stuff, no childhood shit."
The other thing we do is we make everything that's uncertain certain.
The first thing I want to do is say thank you to all of you.
The second thing I want to do is introduce my co-author and dear friend and co-teacher.
And even as we do our own work, all too often, we find ourselves having to choose between doing what we think is the right thing and doing the expected thing, or the required thing, or the profitable thing.
If things aren't going right, the first response is: let's make more rules, let's set up a set of detailed procedures to make sure that people will do the right thing.
We need people who want to do the right thing.
Practical wisdom is the moral will to do the right thing and the moral skill to figure out what the right thing is.
And so the will to do the right thing is just as important as the moral skill of improvisation and exception-finding.
Now the striking thing about this is that psychologists have known this for 30 years.
They want to have permission to do the right thing.
But the thing is, how come it's news to most people?
(Music ends) It's really a remarkable thing that happens there.
So the hardest thing for me was the kinesthetic thing, looking at my hands through two mirrors, laying on my back, and not able to move at all except for my hand.
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