Quotes About Vulnerability

We need support. We need folks who will let us try on new ways of being without judging us. We need a hand to pull us up off the ground when we get kicked down in the arena. And if we live a courageous life, that will happen.

Too much shame and blame, not enough accountability and learning.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The Heart of Daring Leadership 1. You can't get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability. Embrace the suck. 2. Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead. 3. Courage is contagious. To scale daring leadership and build courage in teams and organizations, we have to cultivate a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts are the expectation, and armor is not necessary or rewarded.

O crédito pertence ao homem que está por inteiro na arena da vida, cujo rosto está manchado de poeira, suor e sangue; que luta bravamente; que erra, que decepciona, porque não há esforço sem erros

We have to own our story and share it with someone who has earned the right to hear it, someone whom we can count on to respond with compassion.

4 skillsets of courage: 1. Rumbling with Vulnerability 2. Living into Our Values 3. Braving Trust 4. Learning to Rise

It takes a lot of courage to show up and be all in when we can't control the outcome. It also takes discipline and self-awareness to understand what to share and with whom. Vulnerability is not oversharing; it is sharing with the people who earn the right to hear our stories and our experiences. Vulnerability is not a weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage." -Brené Brown

As an adult, I have to constantly work at allowing myself to be vulnerable and authentic around some of these issues.

I think the most important thing she has told me about reaching out to others in crisis is this: "You do it because that's the person you want to be. You do it because that could have been me and one day it could just as easily be you.

But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

trust as "choosing to risk making something you value vulnerable to another person's actions," and he describes distrust as deciding that "what is important to me is not safe with this person in this situation (or any situation).

and living from our wild heart rather than our weary hurt.

Daring leaders who live into their values are never silent about hard things.

Perfectionism and fear are keeping people from learning and growing.

You can't get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability. Embrace the suck. At the heart of daring leadership is a deeply human truth that is rarely acknowledged, especially at work: Courage and fear are not mutually exclusive.

innovation is hindered by allowing criticism from the cheap seats—from those who aren't willing to get down into the arena.

I also learned that when you hold someone accountable for hurtful behaviors and they feel

From this foundation of spirituality, three other significant patterns emerged as being essential to resilience: 1. Cultivating hope 2. Practicing critical awareness 3. Letting go of numbing and taking the edge off vulnerability, discomfort, and pain

All of my stages were different suits of armor that kept me from becoming too engaged and too vulnerable.

our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

One of the questions I'm most often asked is "Don't you get really depressed talking to people about vulnerability and hearing about people's darkest struggles?" My answer is no, never. That's because I've learned more about worthiness, resilience, and joy from those people who courageously shared their struggles with me than from any other part of my work.

But no matter what we use, we can't selectively numb emotions- when we numb the dark, we also numb the light.

Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance. Shame dissipated the minute I realized that I wasn't alone—that my experience was human.