I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the first 2 parts of your LIza interview. Both really fun to read (like eavesdropping on a private conversation) and really interesting.

I particularly liked Liza's paragraph, "I think there's this fear, especially in women, about being too amazing...." I've heard things like this or observed it in so many women (and men too although in a different way)

And to make matters worse, the moment you do feel comfortable enough to show a little amazingness you have others around you, ready and willing, to shut you down.

Guys, I think, go in two ways. On the one hand there is the introvert guy who follows the female pattern Liza describes. Stick to the status quo. You're allowed to excel but only in socially established ways and never in a way that brings undo attention. And then there is the extrovert guy. I have a much harder time understanding this guy. But he is in a constant struggle for the spotlight/dominance. Everything he does has to be bigger, louder and crazier. If you want to be the alpha male you absolutely have to get noticed. Even bad attention, fighting, vandalism, mistreatment of women, help to establish the alpha male credentials. Maybe these are 2 sides of the same coin. One person artificially reduces who they are and lives trapped within a painful lie never able to reach their true potential. The other artificially expands their personality and lives in constant fear of not living up to the expectations they've established. Neither can ever really be comfortable, both are always competing with a false vision of their own identity.

Anyway, This email wasn't really supposed to be one of my rambles but rather a "thank you" for yours and Liza's.

Can't wait for part III