See, I thought that it was me: this vague sense that things weren’t really as they seemed. How hard One wanted stuff, no matter how hard One worked, didn’t really matter. What really mattered was unknown. It was, therefore, out of reach?
(I spent many years in therapy, asking about this non-existent book of rules that no one else seemed to be reading!)
When I started corporate work in NYC, a zillion years ago, in the film industry, I noticed there were very few female executives. And I also noticed that the female executives that were there kept to themselves and tended not to mentor.
I wondered why it wasn’t different than it was.
But I didn’t wonder why it was like it was.