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Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work.[citation needed] She has spent the past sixteen years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers – The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and The Courage to Stand Alone. Brown's TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 30 million views.[citation needed] In addition to her research and writing, Brown is the Founder and CEO of BRAVE LEADERS INC., an organization that brings evidence-based courage building programs to teams, leaders, and organizations.[citation needed]

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We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

Children, Disappointment, Raising, Tolerance

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else's hourly failures to live up to divine standards. It means learning to forget myself on a regular basis in order to attend to the other selves in my vicinity. It means living so that "I'm only human" does not become an excuse for anything. It means receiving the human condition as blessing and not curse, in all its achingly frail and redemptive reality.

Alive, Attend, Gratitude, Mean, Practicing, Reality

Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

Down, Joy, Missing, Moments, Risk

It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?

Longer, Question, Want

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Dangerous, Inspiration, Inspire, Motivation, Vulnerability, Weakness

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Inspirational Life, Loving, Motivational, Process, See, Self Love

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

Alive, Grateful, Mean, Vulnerable

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.

Addressing, Behavior, Choices, Hurtful, People, Set

Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.

Confidence, Cornerstone, Cornerstones, Vulnerability

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Emotion, Enough, Fear, Master, Not Good Enough, Powerful

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm. (page 10)

Flying, Storm, Stories, Become, Share, Story

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Showing Up, Overcoming Fear, Daring Greatly, Showing, Courage, Seen

I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits

Believe, Care, Overcoming, Spirits, Ultimately

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. . . If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

Derives, Empathy, Exposure, Light, Stories, Story

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

And Love, Arena, Faith, Life, Live, Principles

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

Positivity, Important, Who We Are, Gentle, Knowledge, Kind

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Embrace, Play, Rest, Self Worth

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.

Boundaries, Failing, Mistreated, People, Used

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Heart, Love, Love You, Meant, People, Thinking

Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people. . . have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.

Attention, Heart, Knees, People, Single, Story

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