#To be brave professional#

“Vulnerability is not about losing, it is about showing up when you can’t control the outcome,” says Dr. Brown, and she connected it to vulnerability. It crystalized what it meant to “be in the arena” to Dr. “There is my life before that quote, and my life after that quote,” says Dr.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short again and again…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.' It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. She clicked on a link of a speech of his, and read the following quote, She watched it for seven hours, then googled the actors, what it cost to go to England, and eventually she looks up who was president of the US during Downton Abbey, and it was Theodore Roosevelt. She naturally waited for her husband to leave then began to read them, leading her to spiral, “I needed peanut butter and Downton Abbey,” Dr. Brown tells a story about how after her first TED Talk was posted and she realized it was becoming a hit, her husband warned her not to read the comments. Brown’s talk on how we can answer the call to courage in our own lives:īe Intentional About Who You Accept Feedback Fromĭr.

#To be brave professional#

Brown’s research, choosing courage and vulnerability opens us up to love, joy and belonging, and brings us closer to what she calls, “whole-hearted living.” It changes the kind of partner, parent and professional we are when we live brave and authentic lives.