Name: 【TED】Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure (To raise brave girls, encourage adventure | Caroline Paul)
Uploaded: 2017-03-28T16:49:49.000Z
Duration: 12 min 42 s
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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with the Guinness Book of World Records,

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and I really wanted to set a world record myself.

So I decided to set a world record in something

that demanded absolutely no skill at all.

Now, the record at the time was 12 and a half miles,

and for some reason, this seemed totally manageable.

and together we decided, we didn't even need to train.

we put furniture pads on the outside of our good luck jeans

Now, by now, my knees were bleeding through my jeans,

And to give you an idea of the suffer-fest that I was undergoing,

the first lap around the high school track took 10 minutes.

So I was short of the 12-and-a-half-mile record.

Now, for many years, I thought this was a story of abject failure,

because when I was attempting the world record,

but those are not the attributes of failure.

and I was the 15th woman in a department of 1,500 men.

there were many doubts about whether we could do the job.

So even though I was a 5'10", 150-pound collegiate rower,

and someone who could endure 12 hours of searing knee pain --

I knew I still had to prove my strength and fitness.

and sure enough, when my engine group pulled up,

there was black smoke billowing from a building off an alleyway.

and he was on the nozzle, and I was right behind,

and I did what a firefighter was supposed to do:

The explosion had been caused by a water heater,

so nobody was hurt, and ultimately it was not a big deal,

And I was confused, because the fire hadn't been difficult physically,

so why was he looking at me with something like astonishment?

Skip, who was by the way a really nice guy

not only thought that women could not be strong,

he thought that they could not be brave either.

"Caroline, all that fire, all that danger,

Honestly, I never heard a male firefighter asked this.

that her young daughter was a big scaredy-cat,

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【TED】Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure (To raise brave girls, encourage adventure | Caroline Paul)

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