Brene Brown – The Power of Vulnerability

Ok, I know this sounds all new age-y but wait, this is a TED Talk worth checking out!

In one of the most watched TED Talk’s of all time (11 million plus views), academic and best selling author Brene Brown’s shares the results of her research and her insights on human connection. She’s a sought after speaker to multinational corporations and her work has even been embraced by the American military.  

In this funny and insightful talk Brene tells us that to live a full life requires courage – and showing courage means doing things that make us feel vulnerable.  

Among her many insights: “We live in a culture with a strong sense of scarcity. ‘We wake up in the morning and we say, ‘I didn’t get enough sleep.’ And we hit the pillow saying, ‘I didn’t get enough done.’” We’re never thin enough, extraordinary enough or good enough – until we decide that we are. ‘For me,’ says Brown, ‘the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.’“

Brown continues: "If we really believe this, we stop trying to fix everything for them. If one of my kids is struggling, it feels excruciating to let them go to school and figure it out for themselves. Hope is a function of struggle. People with the highest hopefulness have the knowledge that they can move through adversity. When we take adversity from our children, we diminish their capacity for hope.”

Enjoy-

Jeanine