'Courage and vulnerability are not two ends of the spectrum They are one in the same.' With vulnerability, you have failure and with failure-you have extreme discomfort, and unfortunately there's no way around that.

In order to do great things in business and technology, you need to be vulnerable. Ideally she explains, they would hope to 'remove discomfort from failure,' ultimately engineering a more comfortable way to fail.in an attempt to regain composure and refocus toward accelerating progress.Īs we know, failure is an inevitable aspect of innovation and Brown says hacking failure and the associated discomfort out of the equation is never going to happen. Roosevelt's words and Brown's subsequent insights hold implications for all people and all aspects of life, from education to business to relationships (including the one with yourself).įrom a business perspective, Brown highlights her dealings with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and CEOs of major companies as they work to streamline creativity and innovation. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming īut who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,Īnd who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails whileĭaring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' 'It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. I discovered Brown during a TED binge several years back, so I was thrilled to kick off last night's Netflix-and-chill with her talk 'The Call To Courage.' As a refresher for anyone familiar with Brown's talks, and an introduction for those of us who haven't heard this yet.here are the incredible words spoken by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 that drove Brown and so many of her followers to live their lives 'in the arena': She's penned five New York Times best sellers and spoken for TED on multiple occasions, with her talk 'The Power of Vulnerability' among the top 5 TED talks ever (35+ million views). For those of us who don't know yet, Brené Brown is a seasoned research professor with nearly two decades of experience studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy.

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