Quotes About Vulnerability

The interaction he describes can be called a vulnerability loop. A shared exchange of openness, it's the most basic building block of cooperation and trust.

But they succeeded because they understood that being vulnerable together is the only way a team can become invulnerable.

Increasing people's sense of power—that is, tweaking a situation to make them feel more invulnerable—dramatically diminished their willingness to cooperate.

science shows that when it comes to creating cooperation, vulnerability is not a risk but a psychological requirement.

What are groups really for?" Polzer asks. "The idea is that we can combine our strengths and use our skills in a complementary way. Being vulnerable gets the static out of the way and lets us do the job together, without worrying or hesitating. It lets us work as one unit.

Exchanges of vulnerability, which we naturally tend to avoid, are the pathway through which trusting cooperation is built.

Make Sure the Leader Is Vulnerable First and Often: As we've seen, group cooperation is created by small, frequently repeated moments of vulnerability.

I have an idea that the phrase "the weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm. —OGDEN NASH

When you do feel shame, seek out someone who loves and accepts you for who you are, in the intimacy that exposure brings, an amazing opportunity of being loved for who we are

Sometimes situations call for us to act strong and brave even when we don't feel that way, but the payoff is better if we don't pretend when we feel weak or scared so that we allow people to show the kindness that's in them

I think honesty and love help to create the safety that children need to just be children. If we want them to "fix" us, to cure us, to make us better, then we are not being honest with ourselves; we know that children can't heal us or heal our relationships with others. That is beyond their capabilities, and it is certainly not their responsibility.

more often, the payoff is better if you don't pretend you feel strong when you feel weak or pretend that you are brave when you're scared. I really believe the world might be a safer place if everyone who felt vulnerable wore flashers that said, "I have a problem and I'm doing the best I can".

Kemampuan terbaik saya adalah ketika saya tidak bisa melakukan sesuatu. Saya telah mengembangkan kemampuan untuk merasa kuat dan percaya diri dalam situasi-situasi ini. Saya merasa bebas untuk bergerak, mendengarkan nurani saya, belajar, bertindak, bahkan jika itu berarti saya akan melakukan kesalahan. Jika Anda menginginkan hidup yang kreatif, lakukan apa yang tidak bisa Anda lakukan dan resapi keindahan dari kesahalan-kesalahan yang Anda buat.

My porch feels as safe as a chocolate doughnut on an ant hill.

Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

I often see people saying 'Nobody has produced an invulnerable software system; therefore, nobody will ever produce an invulnerable software system.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

Ideally, friends are people with whom we can be our true selves, with whom we can fearlessly let our guard down. (Arguably, a close friend is someone with whom we can allow ourselves to enter the daydreaming attentional mode, with whom we can switch in and out of our different modes of attention without feeling awkward.)

It is, ironically, "safer" to believe that the reason your needs are not being met is because there is something wrong with you, rather than that your parents—whom you depend on for your very survival—are actually not dependable.

The key to clinical attunement is to be willing to say "I don't know" and "tell me more.

Children are particularly vulnerable to becoming the targets of the projection of our nonconscious emotions and unresolved issues.

They are so in touch with themselves that they are open toward everyone." What

leave people vulnerable to mental illness later in life. Recent studies have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), or brain scans, to discover specific changes in certain areas of what's called the hippocampus in the brains of young adults who have experienced abuse.

As interns we attempted to avoid the overwhelming awareness of the patients' passive, helpless, and vulnerable experience by identifying ourselves only as active, empowered, and invulnerable medical workers. The child's vulnerability became a threat to our active but nonconscious effort to avoid our feelings of vulnerability and helplessness. In retrospect, the children's vulnerability became the enemy.