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Brené Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.
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Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.
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The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
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Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
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Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism
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There are infinite numbers of do overs for your teen girls.
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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
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Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
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Hope is a function of struggle.
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I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.
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Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.
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The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.
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I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.
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Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
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At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.
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If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
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Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
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Hope is really a thought.
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