TEDxKC - Brené Brown - The Price of Invulnerability

[gkdrummerboy]

GSP should watch this.

[MsEat25]

Is there a transcript of this speech anywhere on the web?

[cmccormick3193]

@ghostfaceki11ah: my interpretation of your transcription:

an individual has a certain amount of Faith (somewhere between a lot and very little) ... that individual can experience a particular amount of Vulnerability (somewhere between a lot and very little) ... the more Vulnerable that individual is, the less they will bounce around the roller-coaster of Extremism as they live their lives. aka: Life flows between Certainty and Uncertainty ... Faith, Vulnerability are vessels to best ride it.

[ghostfaceki11ah]

can someone better explain the faith - vulnerability= extremism equation. And " faith is the vulnerability that flows between the shores of certainty" quote!!!!!

[happinesson]

i am totally affected by this..nice talk

[R0BMonroe]

Your joy is a full well, dug by your own sorrow. If you do not allow one, you do not have the other.

Thanks, good video

The Eroticist

[yorindavortex]

Thank you for the very interesting talk.

I can relate to that when we repress shame etc we also repress joy.

I read somewhere that our safety lies in our vulnerability.

Much appreciated.

[KElizabethLaw]

Allowing ourselves to be vulnerable - In my opinion, this is the hardest thing of all to do, yet the most rewarding.

[LonelyaDalilaaa460]

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[lillibw]

Brené - you are my hero. Wow. THANK YOU.

[JivinJane]

@tdreamgmail

" Yet another aha moment yet what can you do to get away from the numbing? '

We see it and we acknowledge it and we sit with it and let it soften gradually and maybe it comes back stronger, and so we do the same technique maybe for years, but not to acknowledge it is to stay rigid. We sit with it and watch it until finally it is melted away. And then along comes another challenge! lol

[enigma887]

A force to be reckon with.

[yeunju7]

So broken down to the point that I want to share it :)

[ptbeatty1]

Observations:The more left brained you are, the less vulnerable you are willing to become.

[ptbeatty1]

The more left brained you are, the less vulnerable you are willing to become.

[Prospiritydotcom]

Wow! Brilliant indeed.

[tdreamgmail]

Yet another aha moment yet what can you do to get away from the numbing? The practical exercises and actions that follow? Or is the ego satisfied we now know why we feel the way we feel but continue to live the same life and make the same mistakes regardless.

Sitting atop your great marble psychological pedestal? Reliving the story, but what advice can you give? You stew in your own situation yet offer no answer. The salesman first port of call is always pain and vulnerability.

[Zgrzemski]

@tdreamgmail: It is each of our personal responsibilities to do for ourselves what we need to do in order to stop the numbing. There is no single answer for everyone. It will require that each of us desires strongly enough to halt the cycle and are willing to pause long enough to listen to our personal wants and desires. Part of living authentically is knowing what the best next thing is for us individually. Take small steps and lead with your heart. Your doubts & fears will eventually subside.

[ASookee]

@tdreamgmail

'no answer'? perhaps you heard Renee's speech, but did not listen.

[alldreams13]

@tdreamgmail 14:05 practice gratitude appears to be advice

[VikingaJM]

The answer ir right there and quite clear... your comment sounds to me like another example of how we numb vulnerability... Thanks for that! I'm starting being brave enough to live through my vulnerability... and you'd be amazed!!! I can't describe it, you have to do your own process. it takes lots of will and courage at first, but once you start you realize the barriers we build to avoid what we fear are waaaay scarier than what we fear!

[VikingaJM]

Responder a este vídeo... Humans we are, mistakes we're gonna make, always, but being wise enough to accept our flaws, embrace our vulnerability and learn from our mistakes really helps... good luck! Love 

[tdreamgmail]

@VikingaJM aww you sound like a sweetie pie, my sis linked me to her other video which was much better in explaining vulnerability to me. I am now a fan

[Boldstrummer]

@tdreamgmail

One has to take responsibility for our vulnerability or lack of .

You already projected a not good out come.

So it seem you already know the answer.

Seems there is anger by judging her as being on a pedestal.

She has DONE THE WORK. She confronted her conditioning.

It was a fight be she won in the end. YOU can do the same thing.

Nothing stopping you except you.

Practice gratitude. To honor what is ordinary in our lives.

The people we love our community. Be grateful.

[AuroraClaire94]

@tdreamgmail The purpose of this is not to provide all the answers. No one has all of the answers. The purpose is to provoke meaningful thought and change the way we view ourselves and everything around us. Brene's point is that we need vulnerability and therefore we should not try to numb it at all. We have to take the good feelings with the bad. Without suffering there would be no compassion. There's no set recipe to a perfect life without any bad feelings. That's not the way life was Created.

[ilovelux]

@AuroraClaire94 well said.

[AuroraClaire94]

@ilovelux Thank you.

[fidelma65]

I like her talk - except for her acceptance of "faith" as a desirable attribute. Many people who embrace vulnerability and accept joy into their lives are people without faith. Vulnerability does not have to be attached to spirituality.

[SuzanneSL]

@fidelma65

Faith means believing , you may have faith in human nature or faith in your friend . You believe in them, has nothing to do with religion or spirituality!

I believe this!

[riviswim]

Interesting that I discovered this on New Years Day.

[gbessone]

Excellent. I felt very identified with many things she said.

[LunaMoonJune]

instantly I imagined the family all breaking out into song...

[therealsoyboy]

Brilliant!

[Aprinsa]

"faith minus vulnerability equals extremism" 6min, wow

[tcaruso2]

Dr. Brown seems to say a lot of the same things that Pia Melody has been saying for a decade or more about vulnerability and that we can not block out one feeling without blocking out all of them.

[alicephilomena]

What a wonderful surprise to stumble acoss Dr Brown, so much sense in her talks.

and she actually gets to the heart of my/our deep untalked of cause and effect of

most of silent needs to speak out ,and risk to live fully

[tachion101]

What she really talks about is fear and compassion will create a world with less fear.

However, what she uses fear in her talk. We are on a bad path.. We miss out if we don't protect ourselves against this or that.

She herself is using examples of fear and negative labeling ( we are fat) to create a riveting talk, instead of giving a talk with examples of compassion.

Fear and negative judgments gets attention and she used it.

Compassion is the answer but she showed none of it.

[pteaudio]

AWESOME!

[queenofcapitola]

this tells me a lot about myself and how I have survived..

[DeSwiss]

Thank you. This was awesome!

[fabfam4]

FABULOUS!

[myposchange]

"We want more guarantees. We we want to believe that we we're not going to get hurt and that bad things aren't going to happen and they are, and there is a guarantee that nobody talks about and that is that if we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when those hard things happen."

Well said.

[TheJtperset]

love this speaker...Brene Brown is incredible!!

[amsierra]

OUTSTANDING!!!!

[speludner]

Wow. Brilliant.