Those Who has Inspired Me

Those Who has Inspired Me

An inspiration for me at least comes from many different and diverse sources. Some are small, some are big. Some are pretty common and some most people don't even recognize. I'm gonna talk about one of my inspiration that has changed the way I think about courage and what it means to be someone living in a world of judgments, and that person is Brené Brown.

First, a little bit of context. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work.] She has spent the past sixteen years studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of four #1 New York Times bestsellers – The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and The Courage to Stand Alone. In addition to her research and writing, Brown is the Founder and CEO of BRAVE LEADERS INC., an organization that brings evidence-based courage building programs to teams, leaders, and organizations.

In 2011 Brené did a talk on a very popular channel on youtube called TED TALK. There she shared her experiences working as a researcher trying to understand the human connection and what drives it. And basically what she has found is that the only way for true connection is to be vulnerable, it's to have these conversations where you can be judged and experience these fear of the possibility of shame and humiliation. and that is the true meaning of being courageous it's not doing stuff like jumping off a bridge or watching a scary movie, its to be willing to do something where there are no guarantees and to be seen with your 'naked truth' to be stripped away of an image we try so hard to uphold in our daily life that we are perfect or without flaw which nobody is. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it's also the birthplace of joy, creativity, a sense of belonging, love, and also connection. Vulnerability is also what drives empathy because to truly understand what someone is feeling or is going through we need to find something in ourselves to really relate and connect with that. She also shared what we are doing wrong as a society, we numb vulnerability our answer is to divide emotions into the good like joy, happiness, love, etc and the bad like anger, fear, grieve, etc and we are expected to not feel the 'bad' emotions and only feel the good. but the human brain cannot do that we cannot feel joy without feeling sadness we cannot feel pride without feeling shame and we cannot feel belonging without feeling excluded. when we numb the bad emotions we numb all emotions and we become depressed and lost without a purpose in life. and as someone struggling with that, she really helped me out.

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