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“中獎時刻”
Major General Jessica Wright, the most senior woman in the US military today, is utterly warm, charming and not scared to embrace a feminine style. She’s also crisp and assured and not somebody who appreciates dithering. Over her long military career, she’s suffered from “spaghetti nerves” like most of us, and has had plenty of confidence building moments becoming a leader in such masculine world. One confidence tip she offered was an early discovery: some of your most challenging moments can be turned to your advantage. Early in her career, one superior told her that he didn’t much like females in the military. “About 500 things went through my head,” she says, “but what I told him was ‘Sergeant, this is your chance to get over that.’” Her decision to seize that potentially fraught moment paid off. She gained his respect, and she felt her confidence soar.
杰西卡·懷特少將，也是當今美國軍隊中軍銜最高的女性，是一個極其熱心且富有魅力的人，她并不擔心自己的風格女性化。同時她也并不喜歡優柔寡斷，相反她十分行事果決。在她漫長的軍事生涯中，她就像我們中的大部分人一樣經歷了“迷茫和混亂”的時刻；在這個男人的世界里成長為一個領導人，她也經歷了許多樹立起信心的瞬間。她告訴我們她很早以前發現的一條樹立信心的竅門：一些你人生中遇到過的最具挑戰性的瞬間，可能反過來成為你的優勢。在她事業的早期，曾有一位上級告訴她他并不喜歡參軍的女人。“我一下子覺得腦袋里很混亂，”她說，“但是我還是告訴他‘中士，這正是你克服這種心理的好時機。’”對于這種可能造成造成尷尬的時刻，她作出的這種迎難而上的決定最終贏得了他的尊重，也增強了自己的信心。
