Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

I love twitter, but I hate the abundance of tweets at times. This tweet I love: from @CoachKWisdom: All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself. Applying the advice in this book has transformed my way of thinking. In an era when the number of self help books can be daunting in itself and learning how to apply each piece of advice to your life can be overwhelming, Daring Greatly stands apart. It challenges the reader to be vulnerable, and in turn not conform to society, but to live a worth living by daring you to be truly who you are at your very core, which maybe the most difficult challenge in life. The messages in Daring Greatly might be the easy to understand, but difficult to apply. The book opens by using a segment of Theodore's Roosevelt's Speech, "Citizenship in a Republic" which at one point reads, "who at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...". Essentially, it is easy to criticize, make fun of, laugh at others and not risk because doing so is easy. Daring Greatly, inversely promotes vulnerability and taking emotional risks and exposure every day. It explores how shame creates a life that nourishes ordinary living and when exposed with resilience, living a great and fulfilled life can be achieved. Daring Greatly will show readers how to be better leaders, parents, workers, thinkers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and people. It will change your daily mentality and make you think twice about your behaviors and decisions. It will have you asking yourself, "It's easy NOT to say anything right now, but is that really what I want to happen," because in the moment the easiest thing to do will be to be quiet and the courageous action will be to ask the embarrassing question or offer an idea that might be construed as stupid. It will give you the bravery to engage in your relationships/friendships by talking openly about the difficult topics that used to be almost taboo. And it will certainly make you look at the way we use shame in our lives to feel better about ourselves by ridiculing others, gossiping, blaming and never accepting responsibility. It has made an immediate impact on how I interact with others, how I think about myself, how I parent, how I react, and much more and because of that I have felt and experienced life in a deeper sense. It is worth every minute of your time because it will allow to bring shame out of the shadows and into the light by truly living a life of daring greatly.

This is not the first book of Berne Brown that I have read- and like the others she does not disappoint. I bought this book during the pandemic but didn't get around to reading it until recently. I realize the book was written in 2015- but still believe it is an excellent read and worth the time. Brown has an easy way of writing that you can really relate to. I actually had one of her other books as an audio book that she herself narrated- and could hear her voice as I read this book. The book is well written and an easy read- but full of good information to get you thinking about your own relationship with vulnerability. For anyone that wants to grow as a person in moving past the shame and emotional pain that can be life binding- this book is honestly a must read. I love her ideas on how to become shame resilient and make peace with vulnerability (still a work in progress here.). My only wish was that she went into more detail of ways to practice vulnerability for people who are not married or in a family situation. Difficulty with shame and vulnerability can keep some from ever finding a partner or starting a family- and no matter the age- when someone is trying to learn to embrace vulnerability and grow shame resilience without the support of a husband or parent- it is a different journey. Her ideas can most surely be extrapolated to all situations- but I admire her work and wish she was more complete in this area. Overall a great read. Happy to recommend.

This is a really good book. This book will cause you to think through the ideas of shame and vulnerability in a way that you never experienced. The book is inspiring, and motivational. It is a good book to cause you to think self reflectively. It will help you to think through how you conduct yourself, especially about the role of shaming in preaching and in speech. The book will amaze you at the level of shame within our culture. There are major shame paradigms in this world, and these focal points influence much of what people do. You will also learn about how to manage shame within your own life too. Shame can influence you deeply, and can have influence over you. People process life through a view of shame. This can cause you to hold back in your leadership and in your marriage, etc. This is where vulnerability comes in too. People who have a deep sense of happiness, take the risk of being vulnerable, but with that risk, there is the possibility of being shamed for sharing. So far this year, this was probably the best book I read, and would be up there at the top of my list. It caused me to really think through life and through interacting with people. Here are a few quotes. "Connection is why we’re here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering." "If you roughly divide the men and women I’ve interviewed into two groups— those who feel a deep sense of love and belonging, and those who struggle for it—there’s only one variable that separates the groups: Those who feel lovable, who love, and who experience belonging simply believe they are worthy of love and belonging. They don’t have better or easier lives." This quote is especially powerful for churches. "Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed: “Remember when…? Those were the days…” Read this book, it is great, insightful, and fun to read. I highly recommend it.

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What more can I say than thank you for reminding me who I am and how I should be. You always hear corny tags like love your imperfections but it dies make sense- be genuine above all else and embrace your vulnerabilities and life will never turn against you. I loved the book, perfect seaside read :)

Well worth the read, brain food and insight.

The topics covered in this book are hard to talk about, hard to reason about, which is why reading this book and really leaning in to its teachings is an act of bravery in and of itself. The author is very compassionate about it, but it is still very confronting, and I say that from a place where I have help from a therapist to try and understand those lessons. Today, especially today, in the middle of this social media era, in the heart of this global pandemic, it seems like most of our interactions is driven by shame, as are most of our reactions to events and decisions. This book is very useful to look under the hood and understand what is happening in our hearts and in our minds. Simply enlightening.

I'm so glad I Received the book in good condition which actually was a concern for me. DARING GREATLY by @brenebrown As mentioned on the book cover " DARING GREATLY How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead. The word Vulnerable increased my curiosity to read this book. Being someone who has been criticized for being vulnerable and sensitive since forever thought of reading this book to just feel understood by someone atleast. But this book is a treasure of knowledge and helps you understand much more than I thought. The author has put 12 years of research in this book. No amount of words can express how good this book is and surely a must read for each and everyone hence I would rather best let you all know the content of the book. What it means to dare greatly? Chapter 1- Scarcity : Looking inside our culture of "Never Enough" Chapter 2 - Debunking the Vulnerability myths Chapter 3 - Understanding and combating Shame ( personally found this so helpful ) Chapter 4 - The Vulnerability Armory Chapter 5 - Mind the Gap : Cultivating Change and Closing the Disengagement Divide Chapter 6 - Disruptive Engagement : Daring to Rehumanize Education and Work Chapter 7 - Wholehearted Parenting : Daring to be the Adults We Want Our Children to Be ( this is a must chapter for most of the parents/would be parents it can change the entire way of parenting and built such amazing relation between the parents and the child ) I would just keep ranting that this book is a must read for each and everyone of all age grp and from all walks of life. Whatever role you play ( I'm sure you're playing multiple roles all the time) be it student, parent, professional (could be any), boss, leader you name it, this book will really help you do better and even personally it will help you understand some of your traits come from where (childhood or adolescence) and how to process them and do better for yourself.