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Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.
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I can't even think of the right word, but it's not help. It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so tribe and belonging are irreducible needs, like love.
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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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Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.
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Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.
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We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.
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If you own this story you get to write the ending.
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Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them.
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Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.
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Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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Vulnerability is not weakness.
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A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.
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Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
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Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
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Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.
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[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
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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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Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
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