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I’ve been on a Brene Brown kick for a few months, watching her TED Talks and TV appearances on YouTube. I’ve found her message and research to be enlightening, liberating, and thought-provoking, and when I wanted a to find a book that might serve me as an academic administrator, I chose Daring Greatly. I picked this book of hers to read first because of the reference to Teddy Roosevelt’s quote that concerns criticism and what and what not to heed. If you’ve never heard it, check it out. It’s great advice.
Brown ultimately is a social science researcher, studying shame, vulnerability, and what it takes to live “wholeheartedly.” The book offers a lot of data, anecdotes, and strategies on how to embrace vulnerability and become “shame resilient,” and why these to things are critical to our health, happiness, the strength of our marriages, families, organizations, and communities.
According to Brown, and countless of her wholehearted research subjects, vulnerability is the birthplace of true connection, love, and creativity, among other boons. While it can be extremely uncomfortable, without embracing vulnerability, we cannot reach our full potential in any of these areas. As a writer, I definitely recognize this from a creative standpoint. If I’m caught up in worrying about what people will think of my writing, how can I put words on the page, much less release a whole novel? It’s only by daring greatly that I will get to achieve my life’s dream.
While the book covers more than just shame and vulnerability, shame is vulnerability’s kryptonite. If you are operating in shame or if you are subjected to it in a relationship, your school, your job, etc., you aren’t going to take risks, stretch, innovate. In a shame-driven environment, people will disengage. As an administrator, I want to foster an environment where people don’t fear shaming, where they can say things like “I made a mistake;” “It didn’t work, but we learned a lot;” “I don’t know, but I’ll find out;” “I have a radical idea.”
There’s much more in the book that I will go back to and draw from for use in my family life, my professional life, and my writer’s life. Dare to Lead is next on my list.
Brown ultimately is a social science researcher, studying shame, vulnerability, and what it takes to live “wholeheartedly.” The book offers a lot of data, anecdotes, and strategies on how to embrace vulnerability and become “shame resilient,” and why these to things are critical to our health, happiness, the strength of our marriages, families, organizations, and communities.
According to Brown, and countless of her wholehearted research subjects, vulnerability is the birthplace of true connection, love, and creativity, among other boons. While it can be extremely uncomfortable, without embracing vulnerability, we cannot reach our full potential in any of these areas. As a writer, I definitely recognize this from a creative standpoint. If I’m caught up in worrying about what people will think of my writing, how can I put words on the page, much less release a whole novel? It’s only by daring greatly that I will get to achieve my life’s dream.
While the book covers more than just shame and vulnerability, shame is vulnerability’s kryptonite. If you are operating in shame or if you are subjected to it in a relationship, your school, your job, etc., you aren’t going to take risks, stretch, innovate. In a shame-driven environment, people will disengage. As an administrator, I want to foster an environment where people don’t fear shaming, where they can say things like “I made a mistake;” “It didn’t work, but we learned a lot;” “I don’t know, but I’ll find out;” “I have a radical idea.”
There’s much more in the book that I will go back to and draw from for use in my family life, my professional life, and my writer’s life. Dare to Lead is next on my list.
I wish that I hadn't read Rising Strong right before this, because I think then the ideas would have been more unique and inspiring. That being said, Brene Brown inspires me to live more vulnerable and open-hearted, and I know many people who I'll be recommending this book to.
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I loved this book. She absolutely nails it. If you haven't watched her TED talks, they are wonderful too. Whole hearted living - I connect to this on every level. Going to go back and read it again. Note: the audiobook is terrible (the reader is awful) so I bought the hardcover and it is wonderful.
I’m a huge Brené stan, but I just couldn’t get super into this book. However, I really appreciated the sections about how men and women experience shame differently and how to create a shame free classroom.
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