Quotes About Vulnerability

The most important action that a leader must take to encourage the building of trust on a team is to demonstrate vulnerability first.

Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

Great teams do not hold back with one another," she said. "They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

identify one particular insight from their profile that they feel highlights a weakness that they would like to address for the good of the team.

KEY POINTS—BUILDING TRUST • Trust is the foundation of teamwork. • On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people. • Building trust takes time, but the process can be greatly accelerated. • Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

What is most important is that team members get comfortable letting their colleagues see them for who they are. No pretension. No positioning.

When it comes to teams, trust is all about vulnerability. Team members who trust one another learn to be comfortable being open, even exposed, to one another around their failures, weaknesses, even fears.

In order to be the kind of leader who demonstrates genuine interest in employees and who can help people discover the relevance of their work, a person must have a level of personal confidence and emotional vulnerability.

Io penso che fosse solo spaventato. Penso che scambiasse qualsiasi manifestazione di stanchezza da parte di Stella per il segno di un abbandono imminente. Dopotutto era un artista, e in ogni artista si annida un bambino sperduto e indifeso.

Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.

And now it was no longer a matter of people wilfully moving his electric torch, attempting to steal his drawing-pins, hiding his valuable rubber, malignantly dusting his mounds: now it was with a far deeper conviction, indeed with real distress, that he could say, "I should not wish my fame on to anyone, not even my worst enemy … it makes me physically ill … I protect myself as well as I can … I am barricaded behind double-locked doors day and night.

Bless you, Jack, an inch of steel in the right place will do wonders. Man is a pitiably frail machine

Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do its you who can't bear the idea.

Because they don't want to seem vulnerable. Humans have a lot of this attitude called 'pride,' which is sort of like the satisfaction you get when your machine performs correctly. Pride makes them act contrary to the way they really feel.

You know what?" he said with great earnestness. "I think we're both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump. Isn't that true?

The time for excuses is over. I'm not going to take them. In prison, we had no time for weakness. The kind of emotional and physical vulnerabilities people on the outside seem to wear as badges of honor would have been seen as invitations to attack and humiliation. None of this is acceptable for a student of my system.

As Lizzie had seen so many times with victims, the harder your life had been, the harder it was to give yourself room for ethical choices. So were born cycles of abuse.

Conflict is the price you pay for intimacy. Read that sentence again, and let it sink in. If you want to connect genuinely with other people, you have to risk conflict by being frank and firm in addition to gracious and loving.

you will have to leave behind your need to appear perfect, and instead be appropriately transparent with others.

Wherever you feel the most insecure and fearful is probably where you're being the most passive.

Increasingly, what people with AIDS share are not personal or psychological attributes. They do not share culture or language or a certain racial identity. They do not share sexual preference or an absolute income bracket. What they share, rather, is a social position—the bottom rung of the ladder in inegalitarian societies.