Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Deciding to be brave opens up 'way more possibilities' than being perfect via CNBCMakeIt
"When you decide that you want to be just brave, it opens up way more possibilities than trying to be perfect ever does."
"That perfectionism in me created a lot of anxiety, and every time I got 80 percent, all I could think of is that it was a 20 percent failure. And if I didn't get into the No. 1 school, then that was it, like I had let people down." For Ocasio-Cortez, her moonshot paid off. She shocked the establishment, beating Crowley in the primary and winning the house seat at age 29, making her the youngest woman in history to be elected to Congress. And as a person of color, Ocasio-Cortez became the firstrepresentative to fully reflect the demographics of the 14th district, which encompasses parts of Bronx and Queens counties.
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