Brené Brown
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We need communal sovereignty.
He's like, you know, the whole problem is that your for you page is completely sovereign.
You intellectually and spiritually, I'm paraphrasing what he said.
I'm sure it was like funnier and better looking, but, but
He, he, and then I was trying to think about like, I guess maybe that's not the right term, but let me, let me tell you what scares me the most.
I'm in, I'm in some weird rooms because of the nature of my job.
I'm in rooms where the people who run these platforms and own, and you know, that own the CEOs of these business and the founders are in these rooms and I hear them talking and I hear things that are so misaligned and
that it panics me.
So I hear someone say, hey, you know, tech billionaire, what should my kids study?
I'm worried for my kids.
Well, they should study coding, physics, you know.
And then five minutes later, as if that answer didn't happen, someone will say, to what do you attribute your success?
I mean, deeply when you think about it.
And the same person will say, my deep reading of philosophy in the Stoics.
And so then I'm thinking to myself, well, which is it, dude?
And then I start to extrapolate from there and wonder if there is a thinking class that's emerging where they're like, we're going to read philosophy and we're going to read the liberal arts and we're going to study history.
And the rest of you just keep scrolling.
Don't worry about the big words.
We'll handle all the big words for you.
It's like when they asked Steve Jobs, boy, your kids must love the iPad