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
'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.
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 of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.
I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.
Dare to be the adults we want our children 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.
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.
Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.
Unused creativity is not benign.
At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.