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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.
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Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.
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Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think?
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
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Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.
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Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
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Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
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Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.
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Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
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That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.
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Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
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Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
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Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.
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I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
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If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
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Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
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One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying yes when we mean no, and saying no when we mean hell yes.
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If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
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