Computer Vision News - September 2021

36 makes you happy, genuinely happy. Try to do one thing that you are afraid of. Try to walk outside of your comfort zone. Find that one thing that pushes you outside of your comfort zone. Find that one thing that makes you happy. Life is already full of difficulties. If you also go outside of your comfort zone voluntarily, you make it even more difficult. Yes! But that’s where the exciting things happen! That’s where you get creative! I try to learn something outside of robotics every week. That is what makes me different and unique and creative, when you start walking outside of your boundaries. More than 100 inspiring interviews with successful Women in Computer Vision await for you in our archive! kind of a factor of trying to prove that you can do it too, and you’re as good as everyone else. No one can tell you how to live your life. There is a bit of trying to prove yourself. The other angle, which is conflicting for me, is that Iranian schools are all girls or all boys. They are gender-segregated, because of religious reasons. I always thought that’s a stupid idea. Now, looking back, I actually think that made a difference: in a class of all girls, someone has to be good at math, at physics, at chemistry! You end up getting a full spectrum of people. You never think girls are not good at math. You never build these stereotypes. What else you’d like to share? One thing that comes to my mind, an advice that I personally follow myself: every week, try to do one thing that Women in Science “They are incredibly creative!”