Take a photo of a barcode or cover
4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I think I would have felt more strongly about this book had I read it at a different time. It's message was related to some other books I've read lately, so it didn't hit me as hard. It pretty much said that in order to be really happy we have to allow ourselves to be real. Accept that we, and those around us make mistakes and be ok with that. Anyone who tries will occasionally fail, and real relationships allow us to fail in an emotionally safe place. This is true in marriages, families, work places and friendships.
Great message, but I'd found it in other places so I didn't love it.
Great message, but I'd found it in other places so I didn't love it.
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I'd heard a lot of great things about this book and its author, so maybe I had too high of expectations or maybe it was because I had to read it for work, but I had to make myself finish this book, including having to renew the book multiple times. So much of the book just seemed like common sense.I enjoyed the parenting chapter the most, even though I don't have kids.
I took 6+ months to read this book. I tried to actively work through the chapters to practice the skills in hope that I would form good habits/skills. I look forward to reading more from her!
Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work; she has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Daring Greatly (a phrase taken from a Teddy Roosevelt speech)is a book about how to be courageous in the face of vulnerability, how to overcome shame, how to live freer lives. I hate to call it a self-help book, but I guess it is, but I really enjoyed it. :)
The first half of this book impressed me greatly - I really like the important learnings of Brene Brown, and love her TED talks especially, but it just seemed to get a bit repetitive towards the end, and Brown herself with her neverending stories about her own experiences just got a bit annoying, I hate to admit. Perhaps I just wasn't in the right mood the second time I picked it up.
But there is a lot of wisdom and psychology and analysis in this book, and it has a lot to teach us about embracing vulnerability and growing through the process, the payoff being in the genuineness of the relationships which result from being "real".
This was good timing for me, as my younger daughter is having trouble choosing friends, and being herself in groups. I wanted to get her to read it, as I think it would have been very worthwhile, but the language is too difficult for a 14 year old to enjoy reading. I think Brown should write a version of this book aimed at Middle school children, who would love and learn from it.
But there is a lot of wisdom and psychology and analysis in this book, and it has a lot to teach us about embracing vulnerability and growing through the process, the payoff being in the genuineness of the relationships which result from being "real".
This was good timing for me, as my younger daughter is having trouble choosing friends, and being herself in groups. I wanted to get her to read it, as I think it would have been very worthwhile, but the language is too difficult for a 14 year old to enjoy reading. I think Brown should write a version of this book aimed at Middle school children, who would love and learn from it.