The Power of Vulnerability And Courage

Watch this y’all…

Please —I’m literally begging— you to watch this.  Or at the very least push play jump to a new page and listen to it in the background.

It’s a TED talk by Dr. Brene’ Brown.  It’s powerful.  I listened to it twice. Three weeks ago.  Still thinking about it.

A few KILLER quotes from the talk…

• “Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”
• “Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.”
• “We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.”
• “When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.”
• “You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
• “Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”
• “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ”
• “Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.”
• “I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure — like Ninja Barbie, but I’m Vulnerability TED.”
• “You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”
• “When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.”
• “That’s what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.”
• “If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.”
• “The two most powerful words when we’re in struggle: me too.”

Enjoy!

Thoughts?  Struggles with this?  Do you relate?