Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure
كارولاين بول: لتنشئة فتيات يتحلّين بالشجاعة، شجّعهن على خوض المغامرة
Brimming with insights gained on her picaresque journey from firefighter to best-selling author, Caroline Paul’s "The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure" is a revolutionary guide for raising brave young women. Full bio
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with the Guinness Book of World Records,
(جينيس) للأرقام القياسية العالمية
to set a world record myself.
a world record in something
was 12 and a half miles,
this seemed totally manageable.
we didn't even need to train.
on the outside of our good luck jeans
على بنطالينا جالبيْ الحظ
were bleeding through my jeans,
of the suffer-fest that I was undergoing,
التي مررت بها،
the high school track took 10 minutes.
حول مسار المدرسة 10 دقائق.
the 12-and-a-half-mile record.
this was a story of abject failure,
كنت أظن بأنها قصة فشل ذريع،
attempting the world record,
the attributes of failure.
in a department of 1,500 men.
في قسم يتألف من 1500 رجل.
about whether we could do the job.
150-pound collegiate rower,
بطول 177 سم ووزن 68 كجم،
12 hours of searing knee pain --
my strength and fitness.
when my engine group pulled up,
الفريق المحرك يستعد،
from a building off an alleyway.
من مبنى في أحد الأزقة.
and I was right behind,
بينما كنت خلفه مباشرةً،
was supposed to do:
by a water heater,
and ultimately it was not a big deal,
لم يكن الأمر خطيرًا،
the fire hadn't been difficult physically,
لم يكن شديدًا لهذه الدرجة،
with something like astonishment?
رجلًا لطيفًا للغاية
that women could not be strong,
لا تستطيع أن تكون قوية،
could not be brave either.
وكل هذا الخطر،
a male firefighter asked this.
رجلًا إطفائيًا عن ذلك.
was a big scaredy-cat,
the parents were anxious.
when she was outside began with,
عندما كانت تخرج من البيت،
much more than they caution their sons.
a playground fire pole, ironically,
في ساحة لعب، بشكل ساخر.
were very likely to be warned
الصغيرات أكثر عرضة للتحذير
about the fire pole's risk,
still wanted to play on the fire pole,
to play on the fire pole
that they might have,
guidance on how to use it on their own.
إلى كيفية تسلقه بأنفسهم.
to both boys and girls?
إلى كل من الأولاد والفتيات؟
and more in need of help,
ضعيفات ويحتجن دائمًا للمساعدة.
master difficult tasks by themselves.
الصعبة بأنفسهم بل ويجب عليهم ذلك.
very alike physically.
متشابهين بدنيًا.
stronger until puberty,
حتى سن البلوغ،
that we absorb as kids,
that fully permeates as we grow up.
التي تتغلغل فينا بينما نكبر.
we pass it on to our children,
ننقل هذا الشعور لأطفالنا،
won't believe me when I tell you this,
لن يصدقني عندما أقول هذا،
and it's there to keep us safe.
when fear is the primary reaction
هو رد الفعل الرئيسي
outside their comfort zone.
خارج نطاق منطقة الراحة.
for many years --
it looks just like a bedsheet
أدركت أنها تبدو مثل غطاء السرير
a little fear would make sense here.
ببعض الخوف هنا أمر منطقي.
to come in just right,
or I wouldn't be there.
وإلا لما كنت هناك.
a thousand feet in the air.
على ارتفاع ألف قدم في الهواء.
your girls must be firefighters
our girls to be timid, even helpless,
على الخوف وحتى العجز،
against physical risk.
and the experiences we don't
that we face and try to shed:
ونلقي الضوء عليها:
in our own decisions.
on that playground fire pole.
is really important for kids, all kids,
بمجازفة مهم لجميع الأطفال
and practice bravery,
ويمارسون الشجاعة،
cautioning our girls willy-nilly.
عن تحذير الفتيات تلقائيًا.
what you're really telling her
practicing bravery, too.
في ممارسة الشجاعة أيضًا.
until we teach ourselves.
قبل أن نعلّم أنفسنا.
the heightened heart rate,
ضربات القلب المرتفعة،
you were scared out of your wits,
mostly exhilaration,
outside to learn to be gutsy,
أن يخرجن لتعلم الشجاعة،
to get on hoverboards or climb trees,
التزحلق أو تسلق الأشجار،
she's too scared to go down,
really is too steep,
through courage, not fear.
عن طريق الشجاعة وليس الخوف.
about the steep hill in front of her.
that we cannot protect her from,
التي لا نستطيع حمايتها منها،
be there to guide her through,
لمساعدتها في تخطيها،
to see a girl go break that.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Caroline Paul - AuthorBrimming with insights gained on her picaresque journey from firefighter to best-selling author, Caroline Paul’s "The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure" is a revolutionary guide for raising brave young women.
Why you should listen
Before launching her career as a writer, Caroline Paul embarked on a long list of unlikely adventures, ranging from flying experimental planes to whitewater rafting unexplored rivers in Borneo and Australia.
Paul was one of the first women to work for the San Francisco Fire Department -- a job that inspired her first work of nonfiction, Fighting Fire. Her latest book, The Gutsy Girl, uses stories from her own life as a gutsy woman to inspire girls to break the rules, take risks and accept seemingly insurmountable challenges.
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