What limits the success of women?
Q: In your opinion, what is the primary factor that prevents women from being more successful? A: Not working as hard as they should, and then trying to compensate for that deficiency by taking shortcuts. Discussing the ingredients to success on The Big Idea Show, Paula Deen, a cheerleader who overcame several obstacles and later became a prosperous chef, said, “You’ve got to be willing to make a lot of sacrifices—you’ve got to be willing to work when all of your friends are playing.” Paula knows that the road to success is paved with lots of hard work, but I often see women looking for shortcuts. Rather than becoming a doctor or licensed therapist, they become a foot zone therapist or life coach. Every foot zone therapist I’ve seen, and most life coaches, are women. In the decade that I have been writing about emergency medicine on the Internet, most of the people writing to me looking for shortcuts were women. Their questions generally boil down to: “I want to wear a white coat and t
