TEDxKC - Brené Brown - The Price of Invulnerability

TEDxKC talk synopsis: In our anxious world, we often protect ourselves by closing off parts of our lives that leave us feeling most vulnerable. Yet invulnerability has a price. When we knowingly or unknowingly numb ourselves to what we sense threatens us, we sacrifice an essential tool for navigating uncertain times -- joy. This talk will explore how and why fear and collective scarcity has profoundly dangerous consequences on how we live, love, parent, work and engage in relationships -- and how simple acts can restore our sense of purpose and meaning.

Speaker: Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work where she has spent the past 10 years studying courage, shame and authenticity. She is the Behavioral Health Scholar-in-Residence at the Council on Alcohol and Drugs and has written several books on her research.
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[MissDNicholls]

I got out of a traumatic experience and tried to numb the anxiety related and to wipe it from my mind by going blank whenever I thought of it, I ended up developing an involuntary trigger to go mentally and emotionally blank whenever I tried to think about anything and had to work for months to be able to think and feel again. it's dangerous stuff!

[TheSpeedCube]

Excellent talk, this should be watched by everybody.

In addition to what Brené showed, here is how I see vulnerability:

Vulnerability is something we all need, because it opens the way in which our true emotions and feelings flow and as humans we cannon't keep them in ourselves.

When you are vulnerable you are not thinking about what you are for the outside world but about what you are in you, and thus you break that barrier to release everything that comes right from the heart.

[BMan18]

Ironic use of words in Bene's close. "in vulnerability"...

[Carovanilla16]

Yes, everyone should learn about shame, discuss it, and thus overcome it. Her talks and her book "I thought it was just me (but it isn't)" are slowly helping me realize that I need to embrace vulnerability, and helping me accept the fact that one day this will happen (yeah, it's gonna take a while to really get it, and apply it). It's very educating and helps me change for the better. Thanks for sharing!

[deltaxcd]

This is quite strange definition of Vulnerability. I think Vulnerability is your potential for experiencing loss which is proportional to what you have and inversely proportional to efficiency of your protection measures.

so to be invulnerable we must either have no attachments to anything (be psychopath) or invest into huge diversity of interests to make loss of one thing negligible.

it has nothing to do with emotions

[deltaxcd]

I always had trouble to understand all that trauma stuff, for me it is either problem is solved or not.

not sure what you did but I think if you simply push reality away if will always come back, problem must be solved like accepting reality or changing it not forgotten by trying to avoid all triggers that remind it.

[OwShutUp Ow]

This lady talks in riddles ..yawn * plays Candy Crush *

[mustapha sghir]

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[Shelly Fletcher]

We only need to reach out to each other ... I will be researching why we do NOT

..Awesome talk though.

[Dan Keteri]

Brene is one of my all-time favorite speakers. Her previous talks on shame and on vulnerability are incredible. I have used them in my team meetings and share that to be the best leader possible we need to lead from a point of vulnerability.