Brené Brown on Vulnerability
Jan. 31st, 2011 01:37 pmVia
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It's 20 minutes long, but well worth a look. tl;dr version: You need to allow yourself to be vulnerable to achieve happiness.
I had a big damn post partially written about this, but I find my thoughts are in too much of a jumble to make the post coherent no matter how much I hammer at the edges. So I'll just leave the Powerpoint version:
Keeping this from triggering an incident is taking a lot of mental effort. I'll be happy when Valentine's Day is past.
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It's 20 minutes long, but well worth a look. tl;dr version: You need to allow yourself to be vulnerable to achieve happiness.
I had a big damn post partially written about this, but I find my thoughts are in too much of a jumble to make the post coherent no matter how much I hammer at the edges. So I'll just leave the Powerpoint version:
- I fail at every item on her checklist for success.
- While I believe intellectually that she's right, my every instinct screams not to do it.
- That being said, I have no idea how to begin - even if I could stomp the demons into submission.
Keeping this from triggering an incident is taking a lot of mental effort. I'll be happy when Valentine's Day is past.