BRENÉ BROWN

 Leaders in education, work, and society as a whole should combat disengagement by encouraging.

Such a culture of worthiness and openness towards vulnerability can combat shame-based problems, and if we learn to engage our own vulnerability we can transfer the same values and concepts t...

• Shame is the fear of social disconnection; it’s only human, but harmful nonetheless.
• Shame is part of our current culture and it promotes a fear of unworthiness – of never having or being enough.

Vulnerability means uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

You might love someone, for example, and in doing so expose yourself emotionally; but you can never be certain that they'll reciprocate, thus you risk being rejected. Like any other feeling, love entails vulner...

In order to remove our armor and put down our weapons, it’s necessary to identify how we are masking our shame and protecting our vulnerabilities. 

The three major shields that we use to protect ourselves:

• Foreboding Joy (Imagining dreadful outcomes ...

• Vulnerability is neither good nor bad. Rather, being vulnerable simply means you have the capacity to experience emotions.
• Though we often associate vulnerability with dark emotions, like fear, grief, or sadness, vulnerability is, in fact, also the root of our positive emotions: lov...

Embracing our vulnerability can help us to learn and develop, both professionally and socially.

• Social development: embracing vulnerability allows us to both experience our emotions authentically and be empathic, enabling us to connect with others. Jus...

Talking about our feelings of shame and naming them often diminishes their power. In fact, verbalizing our shame actually makes us resilient to it.

This is because shame gains power through being unspeakable: the less we talk about it, the more control it has over our lives...

If you ignore your vulnerability, or you're simply unaware of it, you might end up increasing it.

As one study demonstrated, people who believed themselves to be invulnerable to the persuasive power of advertising were, in fact, the most susceptible to it; participants...