The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage by Brené Brown

The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage

by Brené Brown

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Psychology & Mind

Six lecture sessions recorded before a live audience, about six and a half hours in all, make up this Sounds True audio course, not a book. Brené Brown pulls twelve years of research together to argue that vulnerability is a source of courage, connection and creativity rather than weakness.

Core ideas
  • Shame is not guilt: Brown separates the two, and she pairs that distinction with her work on shame resilience and on belonging.
  • The armor: Perfectionism and numbing are among the ways you protect yourself from vulnerability, and she challenges the myths that equate it with weakness or prize self-sufficiency.
  • Wholehearted living: Ten guideposts lay it out, drawing on Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection and mixing research with personal stories and humor.
Published2013
Pages1
ISBN9781604078589
ReadNov 2020

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