A large weakness people have is the necessity of a sense of safety before taking risks. A risk here is defined as a testing of a personal idea. 3rd party ideas

A large weakness people have is the necessity of a sense of safety before taking risks. A risk here is defined as a testing of a personal idea. 3rd party ideas necessarily are already vetted to some degree by reality because transportation to you require going through reality. Risks as defined then are a necessity for living a unique life. It isn't always the most desirable thing as the majority of people would rather follow a crowd, but it does often have the most disproportionate rewards for work input. I don't know if it's biological or cultural, but girls/women often require a much higher sense of safety before being willing to do risky things. There is also a much higher "cost" from society from doing things that look foolish. This results in less of a desire to learn, especially as you approach the cutting edge where the failure rate rapidly rises and civilized structures start deteriorating. (the social structure that works best in this "wild" is the frat bro/alpha male structure) Being born beautiful is actually a weakness due to an addiction to strength in this regard. A corresponding male strength is academic excellence. Both these strengths become weaknesses because of lack of experience dealing with setbacks and shocks as well as the accumulated dry tinder that was never periodically cleared via said setbacks. (old people are stubborn because they have too much tinder to risk in a fire/refactor) I use academics as the male example as it creates a drives to validate the prior excellence often forcing them along paths into finance or other areas with high monetary compensation. Selling soul for money, taking no risk by not being true to yourself. Thus addiction to strength creates risk averseness and stagnates growth. Girls are often shielded from reality and also have an escape route of marriage. (men don't, an extreme example of an alternative for them for meaning is being a suicide bomber) Almost all social structures in the world heavily cause girls to become addicted to social validation. (Note that individual validation can be "proved" by money while social validation cannot. Objective and subjective tokens of value) The stereotype of "ugly" girls in STEM is a result of being beautiful increasing the chance of this addiction. (The stereotype of smart/beautiful but crazy may have origins in life-changing experiences that shatters the status addiction but did collateral damage. ) Safety is a necessity for learning which necessarily involves mistakes. However the minimum safety level can be vastly lowered by encouraging a dismissive attitude towards social validation.