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
When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.
Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'
I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.