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
We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment
When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
We cannot give our children what we don’t have.
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.
After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.
The question isn't so much, Are you parenting the right way? as it is: Are you the adult you want your child to grow up to be?
There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.
Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.
The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.