Brene Brown
Brene Brown
Brené Brownis an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Over the last twelve years she has been involved in research on a range of topics, including vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. She is the author of two #1 New York Times Bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfectionand Daring Greatly. She and her work have been featured on PBS, NPR, TED, and CNN...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 November 1965
CountryUnited States of America
Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism
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.
'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.
To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.
Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.
Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?
Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.
When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.
We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.
Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.
There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.
The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.