"It's Easier To Talk About Your Scars Than To Show Them To Someone"

This is a quote from famed writer and TED speaker Brene Brown. A specialist in the field of shame, guilt, vulnerability, and what she refers to as perfectionism syndrome. Her research in these fields can serve as a springboard to being able to understand and move past many things holding us back from living more engaging and fulfilling lives.

You can't get better at something if you don't consciously work at developing it. You can't develop something if you don't bring it out into the open. Few of us need to be taught how to manage, get in touch with, or productively express our emotions of joy and happiness. The same can not be said for our emotions of fear, anger, shame, and vulnerability. It is easier to not deal with the latter and because of our lack of knowledge and training with these emotions we are left to react to situations rather than respond rationally. Or at least as rationally as possible.

Brene Brown takes what are our most uncomfortable feelings and lays them out in a way we can all relate and understand. Although her work is geared towards empowering women, men can benefit from her work all the same. She is one of my favorite authors in the self improvement genre. He words are empowering, she shares her personal experiences, and her writing is witty and entertaining even on the topics that are so uncomfortable for many of us to even acknowledge let alone explore.

References:

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)
The Gifts of Imperfection
Daring Greatly
Rising Strong

All written by Brene Brown

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