Quotes from Brene Brown

there is nothing more uncertain than the creative process, and there is absolutely no innovation without failure.

Understanding that commitment to care and connection is the minimum threshold, we need real courage to recognize when we can't fully serve the people we lead.

If you've created a work culture where vulnerability isn't okay, you've also created a culture where innovation and creativity aren't okay.

É incrível a quantidade de energia que gastamos tentando evitar esses territórios difíceis da alma, quando eles são os únicos que podem nos libertar.

Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher, once spiked this argument. He said, 'There are two types of people in the world, those who divide people into two types, and those who do not.

The clearer and more respected the boundaries, the higher the level of empathy and compassion for others. Fewer clear boundaries, less openness. It's hard to stay kind-hearted when you feel people are taking advantage of you or threatening you.

Fortune may favor the bold, but so does failure.

The invitation is to think about the intention behind our choices

Dare to Lead: I'm here to get it right, not to be right.

complexity is one of our greatest teachers.

Love belongs with belonging.

Belonging to ourselves means being called to stand alone - to brave the wilderness of uncertainty, vulnerability, and criticism.

owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens in the hearts of those of us who have consciously or unconsciously bought into the insidious, rampant, and ongoing devaluation of black lives. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion. Not all people were subjected to the psychological process of demonizing and being made less than human so we could justify the inhumane practice of slavery.

deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible human need

B—Did I respect my own boundaries? Was I clear about what's okay and what's not okay? R—Was I reliable? Did I do what I said I was going to do? A—Did I hold myself accountable? V—Did I respect the vault and share appropriately? I—Did I act from my integrity? N—Did I ask for what I needed? Was I nonjudgmental about needing help? G—Was I generous toward myself?

In shame-prone cultures, where parents, leaders, and administrators consciously or unconsciously encourage people to connect their self-worth to what they produce, I see disengagement, blame, gossip, stagnation, favoritism, and a total dearth of creativity and innovation.

If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback.) HOW

Adam is a number one New York Times bestselling writer, and his latest book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, might be my new favorite.

No matter how separated we are by what we think and believe, we are part of the same spiritual story.

In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they're about brains, but in the future they'll be about the heart.1 —MINOUCHE SHAFIK, director, London School of Economics

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.

Adam Grant has been the top-rated professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for seven years. As an organizational psychologist, he is a leading expert on how we can find motivation and meaning, and live more generous and creative lives.

from the moment we're born until the day we die.