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Brave Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani is the May pick for Krisha's Book Club!!
Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram, or worry about what total strangers thought of you. Imagine if you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself for tiny mistakes. What if in every desicion you faced, you took the bolder path?
This International Bestseller was inspired by the authors popular TED Talk, Reshma Saujani the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code urges women to embrace imperfection and live a daring and an authentic life.
Quoting Angela Duckworth, ‘A timely message for women of all ages: Perfection isn’t just impossible but worse insidious.’
This book shows us how to end our long lasting love affair with perfection.
It’s time to Fear less and Fail more!
It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness.
Her message is simple but powerful. Many a times women are under an enormous pressure to act and be perfect. These expectations are ingrained in girls from birth and most girls are never free of this pressure. There are many parts of this book that strongly resonated with me.
By being Brave and not Perfect, we all can all become the authors of our biggest, boldest and most joyful life. After all, we all are the Picassos of our own life.
This is what the author learnt when she failed while running for Congress. Instead of pulling herself down, she bounced back with a new brave idea- Girls Who Code