Girl, Stop Apologizing: Behavior 3
A Chapter by Chapter Review of Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
The subtitle of Girl, Stop Apologizing is “A Shame-Free Plan For Embracing and Achieving Your Goals,” so I approached the book as encouragement for entrepreneurs. It is for women who want to start businesses and make money. The third behavior Hollis suggests is “embrace your ambition.”
This section is another short chapter. The first section that was only three pages was Excuse 2: I’m Not a Goal-Oriented Person. Like that section, this section doesn’t seem warranted. Some people don’t have a lot of ambition, but for women who want to be entrepreneurs, this is behavior they already have. “Embrace your ambition” isn’t advice for an entrepreneur, but Hollis doesn’t acknowledge it.
The Good
“A strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.” (110) This statement is the definition of ambition from Oxford Dictionaries.
“We can see ambition as a good thing only until it’s our own.” (110–111)
The Bad
“We need to start having a very real conversation about why we accept truths about ourselves as women that we would never consider for men. If it’s not true for everyone, then it shouldn’t be true for anyone.” (109)
