Victor (Vic) Strecher

It is more about transcending that castle wall that you're in.

I think that's what I,

was trying to convey.

And I apologize if I didn't convey it in that way, because I certainly didn't mean you need to get over yourself.

That would certainly be blaming the victim, I think.

It's a wonderful question.

I did not go through any sense of shame.

in searching for my purpose or trying to find my purpose, but I have run into people who have.

I'll never forget, this may be five years after I wrote my book, Life on Purpose, I was invited to give a keynote to a national OB-GYN conference.

So these are obstetricians and gynecologists, many of whom were women,

And after my keynote, I ran a workshop about finding purpose.

And so many of these people came in from the keynote address and most of them were women.

And they said, you just freaked me out, Vic.

I said, how did I freak out?

Well, now this is one more thing I need to do and I need to be really good at.

And of course, we know very often that women sometimes feel

a sense that they need to be perfect and do better.

And there's so many reasons for this, sexist reasons for this that I try to understand.

But it just came out so strongly from these women.

And here I'm thinking these are incredibly successful people, incredibly successful women, professionals who have accomplished everything they strive for in their lives.