Quotes from Brene Brown

Voltaire: "Não deixe o perfeito ser o inimigo do bom.

more people die from prescription drug overdoses than from heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine drug use combined.

What Makes Up Resilience? If you look at the current research, here are five of the most common factors of resilient people: They are resourceful and have good problem-solving skills. They are more likely to seek help. They hold the belief that they can do something that will help them to manage their feelings and to cope. They have social support available to them. They are connected with others, such as family or friends.2

sadness is important and we need it. Feeling sad is a normal response to loss or defeat, or even the perception of loss or defeat. To be human is to know sadness.

To feel is to be vulnerable. Believing that vulnerability is weakness is believing that feeling is weakness. And, like it or not, we are emotional beings.

you can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you can't have both

My other quasi-selfish goal is this: I want to live in a world with braver, bolder leaders, and I want to be able to pass that kind of world on to my children. I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.

Rather than being a tool for connection, sympathy emerged in the data as a form of disconnection. Sympathy is removed: When someone says, "I feel sorry for you" or "That must be terrible," they are standing at a safe distance. Rather than conveying the powerful "me too" of empathy, it communicates "not me," and then adds, "But I do feel for you." Sympathy is more likely to be a shame trigger than something that heals shame.

No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.

Being all light is as dangerous as being all dark, simply because denial of emotion is what feeds the dark.

vulnerability.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When

To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness.

we feel the most alive when we're connecting with others

When we hear others talk about their shame, we often blame them as a way to protect ourselves from feeling uncomfortable. Hearing someone talk about a shaming experience can sometimes be as painful as actually experiencing it for ourselves. Like

the most powerful need for numbing seems to come from combinations of all three—shame, anxiety, and disconnection.

Love and belonging will always be uncertain.

Evolutionary theory suggests that we should embrace all of our emotions, as each has an important role to play under the right circumstances.

shame is much more likely to be the source of destructive behaviors than it is to be the solution.

This means that if we do not have a sense of caring toward someone we lead and/or we don't feel connected to that person, we have two options: Develop the caring and connection or find a leader who's a better fit. There's no shame in this

When we charge headlong into big decisions, it may be because we don't want to know the answers that will emerge from doing due diligence. We know that fact-finding might lead us away from what we think we want.

I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Cuando el fracaso no es una opción, olvidémonos del aprendizaje, de la creatividad y de la innovación.

Humility is openness to new learning combined with a balanced and accurate assessment of our contributions, including our strengths, imperfections, and opportunities for growth.