The Power of Vulnerability

This is an incredible TED video. The beginning is a little slow, but you need all of the information she tells you to start with in order to appreciate the end the way you will if you promise to watch the entire video. If you don’t have time for the entire video, I at least want you to take from it the main message which is exposed in the last couple minutes and I have written below.

Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

Starting at 14: 27 — “Why do we struggle with [vulnerability] so much? Am I alone in struggling with vulnerability? No. So this is what I learned…We live in a vulnerable world. And one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability.

And I think there’s evidence — and it’s not the only reason this evidence exists, but I think it’s a huge cause…