Brené Brown
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Yeah.
I've seen it over and over again.
Yeah, and I think that requires all of us then to care.
It requires all of us to care more about candor than consensus.
There's a paradox in that too, I think.
Which is, well, there's a short-term conflict between comfort and courage.
You just described one.
But in the long run, I think that courage makes you less uncomfortable because you're not confronted with having violated your values.
Is there a quota?
It's like, okay, we've got two columns.
That should not be controversial at all.
That is what higher education is supposed to do, is to teach us to confront and accept paradoxes.
Not good enough.
If you can't accept paradox, what you're constantly doing is closing your mind to the full picture, right?
You're faced with, okay, which of these stories is true?
Which of these values is important?
As opposed to saying, how do we align them?
How do we hold them in tension together?
That's a...
I think that's a pretty dangerous way to operate.