Brené Brown

And the source of it is going to be easy to see.

You're not going to see yourself in them.

So that narrative that you are talking about, it is a full circle.

People in power use power to address issues that they're afraid of.

They gain power by leveraging fear and giving people an enemy.

That's how this works.

It works like this.

I mean, I spend 95% of my time in organizations working with C-suite leaders and senior leaders.

This is how it works in organizations, how it works in political, how it works in faith communities.

This is how power works in general.

So power over is a very specific kind of power.

And it's especially dangerous because in order to maintain it,

You have to engage in periodic bouts of cruelty towards vulnerable populations.

You have to remind people what you're capable of.

Yeah, I think what we've seen be very successful over time is power with, power to, and power within.

So collaborative power, co-creation power, self-awareness, metacognition, knowing yourself, knowing how you think and learn.

So power with and power to.

Power over is excruciatingly difficult to maintain.

Yeah.

We're not neurobiologically hardwired to stay in fear for very long.