Brené Brown

Joy is so vulnerable that people choose to live disappointed rather than to get excited about something and risk getting sucker punched by disappointment.

Like, there is no courage without vulnerability because courage is the willingness to show up and be all in when you cannot predict the outcome.

Wow.

But you can develop skills.

We've taken 165,000 people through this work that included how to build trust.

So this is how we teach trust to the most senior leaders in Fortune 100 companies.

It's awesome.

I'm stuck on it.

Am I an anomaly?

I would say that I'm a fifth generation Texan.

I came from a fair amount of dysfunction.

Parents doing the best they could with what they knew.

both coming from really, really, really tough upbringings that included, you know, poverty, addiction.

And so probably a lot of the stereotypes you would think about fifth generation Texan, tough, don't cry.

We were allowed a very small continuum of emotions were approved, which were pissed off, upset.

or okay like anger was okay but no you know couldn't be sad really or vulnerability was not a thing vulnerability was weakness and scary and put you in jeopardy i felt like a real outsider at home and in school but i was really good at reading people reading situations i think my i think a therapist somewhere along the way said yes that's hypervigilance you're hypervigilant

You know, I can see everything around me and everything's going on.

I can connect things very quickly that other people don't see.

And there was laughter and there was love.

But there was a ton of unpredictability.