Melinda French Gates

And I need to look at that and sort of try and relax the pressure on myself and say, this is tough, but I'm going to figure out my way through it.

And that's where I've grown and learned also the most.

Yeah.

Then there you were as a result of that.

And you find out who your essence is.

Yeah.

The values they put in us and taught us and how they taught us to learn and that's why I first – back in the day when they were hardly anywhere had computers.

We had computers.

It's where I learned I wanted – I could be good in computer science, good in math.

So I knew who I was when I went out in the world.

And I think that I've learned this happens to a lot of women.

We know who we are, but we go into college or we go into the workplace or we go into that environment and people start to chip away at us and say, you can't be that.

You can't do that.

And at least for me, I sort of built up that.

Almost forgetting who I was in my core and my essence.

But as I would see these different groups, I could remember not that, not that, not that.

And so maybe to your point, I was able to chisel my way back to who I am in my essence.

And it was always there and I always held on to it.

I didn't let go of it, but I had to see other things to go, not that.

Yeah.