Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown

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Personal Growth & LeadershipPsychology & Mind

Vulnerability, which Brené Brown defines as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure, isn't weakness. It's where courage and connection come from, and a culture of scarcity and shame is what makes you armor up against it. The title comes from Roosevelt's 1910 Man in the Arena passage.

Core ideas
  • Into the arena: Stepping in beats watching from the sidelines, even when a culture of scarcity and fear makes exposure feel dangerous.
  • Shame resilience: You can build resistance to shame, men and women tend to experience it differently, and vulnerability is not the same thing as oversharing.
  • Home and work: The closing chapters apply the ideas to how you parent and how you lead, drawing on about twelve years of qualitative interviews.
Published2012
Pages287
ISBN9781592407330
ReadDec 2020

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