The Lesson: In this inspiring Ted Talk, researcher-storyteller Dr. Brene Brown recounts her six year journey to understand the key to human connection: vulnerability. She found that vulnerability sits at a paradoxical balance between being the core of one’s struggle for worthiness and yet also the birthplace of true intimacy and belonging. Through equal parts humorous anecdotes and profound discoveries, Brown defines universal feelings in novel ways and reveals how to apply these teachings to lead a more connected life.
Notable Excerpt: “So very quickly — really about six weeks into this research — I ran into this unnamed thing that absolutely unraveled connection in a way that I didn’t understand or had never seen. And so I pulled back out of the research and thought, ‘I need to figure out what this is’. And it turned out to be shame. And shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection: Is there something about me that, if other people know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy…
