Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Reshma Saujani - Teach girls bravery, not perfection.

Reshma Saujani - Teach girls bravery, not perfection.
Reshma Saujani


"Teach girls bravery, not perfection." - Reshma Saujani.

"์†Œ๋…€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ๋ผ." - ๋ ˆ์‹œ๋งˆ ์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ.


Reshma Saujani – "Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection."

Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer, politician, and the visionary founder of "Girls Who Code," a non-profit organization dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. Born in Illinois in 1975 to Ugandan Indian refugees, she became the first Indian American woman to run for U.S. Congress in 2010. During her campaign, she visited schools and noticed a striking lack of girls in computer science classes, which inspired her to launch her global movement. She is also the author of the bestselling books Brave, Not Perfect and Pay Up. Saujani has spent her career advocating for women’s economic empowerment and changing the cultural narrative around female leadership and failure.


๋ ˆ์‹œ๋งˆ ์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์ด์ž ์ •์น˜์ธ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์„ฑ๋ณ„ ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ ๋‹จ์ฒด '๊ฑธ์Šค ํ›„ ์ฝ”๋“œ(Girls Who Code)'์˜ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1975๋…„ ์ผ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ์ด์ฃผ์—์„œ ์šฐ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ„ ์ธ๋„์ธ ๋‚œ๋ฏผ ๋ถ€๋ชจ ๋ฐ‘์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” 2010๋…„ ์ธ๋„๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ•˜์›์˜์› ์„ ๊ฑฐ์— ์ถœ๋งˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ๊ฑฐ ์šด๋™ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘ ํ•™๊ต๋“ค์„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๊ณผํ•™ ์ˆ˜์—…์— ์—ฌํ•™์ƒ์ด ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์šด๋™์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ์ธ 《์™„๋ฒฝํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์šฉ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ》์™€ 《ํŽ˜์ด ์—…》์˜ ์ €์ž์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์™€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ๋ฐ ์‹คํŒจ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๋‹ด๋ก ์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐ”์ณ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Reshma Saujani


The Trap of Perfectionism

Saujani’s profound observation highlights a hidden disparity in how we raise children. From a young age, boys are often encouraged to take risks, climb high trees, and embrace failure as part of the game. In contrast, girls are frequently socialized to be "perfect"—to avoid mistakes, seek constant approval, and play it safe. This "perfection trap" creates an internal pressure that prevents women from entering challenging fields like coding or leadership, where trial and error are essential. By valuing "being right" over "being bold," society inadvertently limits the potential of girls before they even reach adulthood.


์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ์˜ ์ด ์‹ฌ์˜คํ•œ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋‚จ์ž์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์ข…์ข… ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋†’์€ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ, ์‹คํŒจ๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋กœ ๋ฐ›์•„๋“ค์ด๋„๋ก ์žฅ๋ ค๋ฐ›์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์—ฌ์ž์•„์ด๋“ค์€ ์‹ค์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ํƒ€์ธ์˜ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋Š” '์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ'์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋„๋ก ์‚ฌํšŒํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ '์™„๋ฒฝ์ฃผ์˜์˜ ๋ซ'์€ ์‹œํ–‰์ฐฉ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ์ฝ”๋”ฉ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋„์ „์ ์ธ ๋ถ„์•ผ์— ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์ง„์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋กœ๋ง‰๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ํ˜•์„ฑํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '๋Œ€๋‹ดํ•จ'๋ณด๋‹ค '์˜ณ์Œ'์„ ์†Œ์ค‘ํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฒŒ ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์‚ฌํšŒ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ž์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ์ „์— ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณธ์˜ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ฒŒ ์ œํ•œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Reshma Saujani


Redefining Bravery for the Future

The call to "teach bravery" is about shifting the focus from the outcome to the attempt. Bravery, as Saujani defines it, is not about the absence of fear but the decision to act despite it. In the fast-paced world of technology and innovation, the ability to fail and iterate is the most valuable skill. When girls learn to be brave, they become comfortable with being "imperfect," which allows them to take the risks necessary for groundbreaking success. Teaching bravery means celebrating the process of trying something difficult, regardless of whether the final result is flawless. This shift is essential for creating a future where women are leaders in every sector of society.


'์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น˜๋ผ'๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ฆ„์€ ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์—์„œ ์‹œ๋„๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋‘๋ ค์›€์ด ์—†๋Š” ์ƒํƒœ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋‘๋ ค์›€์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ณผ ํ˜์‹ ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ์‹คํŒจํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ์ณ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ์ž์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ์šฉ๊ฐํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์šธ ๋•Œ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ '๋ถˆ์™„์ „ํ•จ'์— ์ต์ˆ™ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉฐ ์ด๋Š” ํš๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ๊ณต์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์นœ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ตœ์ข… ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€์™€ ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด, ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์ผ์— ๋„์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ • ์ž์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๋ฆฌ๋”๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


Reshma Saujani


Breaking Barriers Beyond the Screen

Reshma Saujani’s message resonates far beyond the world of computer science. It is a universal invitation for women and girls to stop apologizing for their mistakes and start taking up space. By choosing bravery over perfection, women can break free from the paralyzing fear of judgment and pursue their most ambitious dreams. Saujani’s work through Girls Who Code serves as a blueprint for this cultural transformation. As we move forward, let us remember that progress is made by those who are brave enough to be messy, not by those who wait until they are perfect. Bravery is a muscle that grows with every risk taken, and it is the key to unlocking true equality.


๋ ˆ์‹œ๋งˆ ์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋Š” ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ ๊ณผํ•™์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋„˜์–ด ํฐ ์šธ๋ฆผ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์—ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์†Œ๋…€๋“ค์ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‹ค์ˆ˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๊ณ  ๋‹น๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋ผ๋Š” ๋ณดํŽธ์ ์ธ ์ดˆ๋Œ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™„๋ฒฝํ•จ ๋Œ€์‹  ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋“ค์€ ํŒ๋‹จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋น„๋˜๋Š” ๊ณตํฌ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•ผ์‹ฌ ์ฐฌ ๊ฟˆ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '๊ฑธ์Šค ํ›„ ์ฝ”๋“œ'๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ์†Œ์ž๋‹ˆ์˜ ํ™œ๋™์€ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ๋ณ€ํ˜์˜ ์ฒญ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ, ์ง„๋ณด๋Š” ์™„๋ฒฝํ•ด์งˆ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ์„œํˆด๋Ÿฌ์งˆ ๋งŒํผ ์šฉ๊ธฐ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•ฉ์‹œ๋‹ค. ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฐ์ˆ˜ํ•  ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ž๋ผ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทผ์œก์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ํ‰๋“ฑ์„ ์—ฌ๋Š” ์—ด์‡ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.




Post a Comment