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Brene Brown (TEDxHouston) | The power of vulnerability

March 10, 2015March 7, 2018Emergent Cognition Project

 

…And to me the hard part of the one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we’re not worthy of connection, [which] was something that, personally and professionally, I felt like I needed to understand better. So what I did is I took all of the interviews where I saw worthiness, where I saw people living that way, and just looked at those. What do these people have in common?

…These are whole-hearted people, living from this deep sense of worthiness…. [T]hese folks had, very simply, the courage to be imperfect. They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because, as it turns out, we can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly. And the last was they had connection, and – this was the hard part – as a result of authenticity, they were willing to let go of who they thought they should be in order to be who they were, which you have to absolutely do that for connection. The other thing that they had in common was this: They fully embraced vulnerability. They believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful.

 

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Categories: Cognitive Emergence: Themes, content : idea, miscellany, TEDTags: cognitive: emotion, interaction-interpersonal: social behavior, interaction-intrapersonal

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