Amy Shecter on Creativity, Failure and Growth

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff · Aug 6, 2019 · 33m

This episode is in partnership with SAP SuccessFactors.

How would your life be different if you were less afraid to make mistakes, to “fail”?

Amy Shecter doesn’t think women let themselves fail enough, and she thinks it’s high time we become less risk-averse. Statistically, she says, women will only take risks when they feel 95-100% confident in a favorable outcome, versus the average man, who will take the same risk at only 50% confidence. And what, really, is there to lose? Most of the time a supposed failure simply means you’re that much closer to the next success.

Amy spent years in…