Measuring sticks are dumb

Demi Moore won her first ever acting award at the Golden Globes tonight and gave a tremendously great speech about how you'll believe you are good enough once you put down the measuring stick (see pull quote below). But the irony is that the award she's holding while she's saying this is a measuing stick.

I'm super happy for her, and though I haven't seen the movie yet, I'm sure she was incredible in it. But the message of her speech is a little muddled. I like what Taylor Swift said (and yes, she's won lots of awards): that the work is the reward.

Most of us work in fields with no awards at all and we must be content with the satisfaction of worthwhile work well done. 

“In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick.’”