The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED
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Brené Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
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😆 She's absolutely brilliant.
4:42 shame is the fear of disconnection.
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Excelente charla, cambió mi perspectiva de la vida. Gracias Brené.
I still watch the speech regularly. It is as relevant today as it was 13 years ago.
This woman is an inspiration. The book changed my way of seeing life and my wrongs.
It takes real courage to be vulnerable, but once you are vulnerable, a whole new world opens up but the saddest part an important part/time of life goes by……..,till one is fortunate enough to come across such an amazing talk……..[Berne Brown].Thankyou Berne Brown❤
crying in the middle of the night thanks brene 🥲👍🏽
When you’re the oldest brother, and you lose a brother by suicide…can’t help but feel like its your fault because i failed as a brother, i failed my duty, vulnerable is real…shower it once to a person i thought loved me, and got used against me…that quote is too real about the woman in our lives that give us the hardest times
When first heard it, brought tears to my eyes, that man knew what it was like to
Yeah ted talk ka tolic h mera yeh. 😢
yale by seventh grade is a necessity🤬🤬
Good
Aqui depois de ler o livro dela kk
will always comeback to this video as a reminder
Love this message. ☮💮☮💮☮
beautiful 🙂 thank you
I came here by means of a Viola Davis Instagram post.
I was encouraged to watch this video by my Tutor. Unfortunately as soon as I found out that the speaker is a Social Worker, I found this very difficult to continue watching due to the outrageous bad lived experiences I have had.
When we numb vulnerability shame, discomfort and disappointment we in the process also numb empathy, joy, gratitude, happiness and then we are miserable 😢😢
Rewatch and share before voting this 2024💙
Now I want a banana nut muffin.
As hey man, I can wholeheartedly say that this woman woman does not know what she is talking about, if you are a man, you must never be vulnerable especially to women. She’s coming from a completely feminized outlook on life and therapy.
Pov: your therapist told you to watch this – and now you keep blowing through Brené's great books and it's just changing you. On book 2/6 now!
Courage to be imperfect 🎉
13 years ago just watching this now & thinking wow how accurate was she with us as a people. Now we live in such a vulnerable & broken state as a people. Time to come together, to heal & be real for the better not just be broken 🙌🏾
2:01
Amazing is the only word.
Courage Compassion Connection Vulnerability ✨
Yet, you are still watching me. Acting like I can teach you without a connection that actually exists. If the connection is one sided. It will only bring about more suffering and futility.
There will be resentment instead of connection
It should be a conversation. Not a preach fest. Teaching cannot be done through preaching. It's still important to identify one's own intentions.
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the best you can get.
Look to the POWER OF GOD.
I LOVE THIS SPEAKER. RESEARCHER STORYTELLER QUEEN ❤
Everything she is saying was already discovered and talked about in the 1980’s by John Bradshaw in the book “healing the shame that binds you”
My notes
Connection vs disconnection
– shame and fear
– Shame – the fear of disconnection (if ppl see this about me they won't want to connect with me)
– 5:30 extricating vulnerability = how u defeat shame
– sense of worthiness
– folks: 2 types. Sense of love and belonging vs those who don't.
– 7:23 – the one variable separating these two groups is the belief that they are worthy of love and belonging. That's it. You believe you are worthy.
– 8:48 what did these "whole hearted" people all have in common?
– 8:50 courage* – they had the courage to to be imperfect. They had compassion* to be kind to themselves first, then to others. They had connection* as a result of authenticity (letting go of who you should be to embrace you you ARE.)
– courage – tell the story of who you are with your whole heart
– 10:00 – they also had vulnerability* they believe what made them vulnerable made them beautiful. It's not easy or comfortable though, but there people talked about it being "necessary". So be who r u and stop controlling and predicting
– 16:30 the issue: when we numb the bad stuff (ex: shame) we numb the good stuff too (ex: joy and happiness)
– 19:13 let yourself be seen. To love with your whole heart even though there's no guarantee of a return (this is veryyyyyyyy hard). To practise gratitude and joy (to be able to feel this vulnerable means ur alive!). To believe that you are enough (in yourself, in your workplace, etc.)
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Here's my conclusion. She didn't say this outright so I'll try to put together the pieces myself. Being vulnerable is extremely important in being connected (with others and without ourselves). How? By defeating shame, which is this fear of disconnection (hide this because if ppl knew they wouldn't like me). How? The research shows if you want this to be "easy" (i.e. to do this being a 'whole hearted' person) then you need to believe you are worthy of love and belonging.
This is hard. But we can break it down a bit. These ppl had:
– courage. To be imperfect.
– compassion – to be kind to themselves first, then to others
– connection – as a result of authenticity (letting go of who you should be to embrace you you ARE.)
This is not easy and requires a lot of personal work, speaking from experience. But in a nutshell, this is you accepting and tolerating yourself (by having empathy for what you went through as a kid) and therefore also learning to tolerate others. And in the realm of compassion, learning this teaches you to accept yourself and like yourself, leading to a sense of yes, you are worthy of love. And this makes you unafraid of being who you really are – with all your imperfections included, leading to no or minimal shame, leading to being vulnerable (and this being easy).
Hope this helps!
It throws me off that she calls stories data
Vine buscando cobre y encontré oro. Amé❤
Gratidão!🙏
Hey Rushie dis Willem. Ek weet nie of jy ooit die boodksap sal sien nie. Maar eks hier en kyk die video en dink vreeslik baie aan jou ❤
This ted talk changed how I think. Thank you.
من ستوري ست نور اكرم منو اجه معي لايك ❤❤
Who is here in 2024?
Probably the best TED talk of all time.
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I'll live a comment so I'll get reminded of this video once liked or replied on.
Started as a research ended as a superficial couch?
One of my favorite tedtalks. I love this woman just by watching 20min!