Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We… (2012)

I love Brene Brown. ( )

From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.

Life changing

A lot of people will probably look at the title of this review and laugh or roll their eyes, and that's okay. The idea of daring greatly is one that i've never truly considered as applicable to my own life. That's for other people, braver people. Vulnerability isn't one of my strongest suits, so putting the two concepts together meant quite a bit of thinking and reconsidering on my end. Brene Brown is one of the top researchers in her field for a reason.

I highly recommend this book in general. No matter the situation, everyone can benefit from Brown's research and experiences. Just be ready for uncomfortable self-examination. It's for your own good, I promise ( )

this is bloated, bland, and uninspired. it has nothing to say of interest or import. it could b perhaps a 10 page essay on medium, but certainly not a several hundred page book. brown refuses to do even a cursory review of academic, philosophical, historical, or religious literature on the concept of vulnerability ( )

I started reading this book during the summer of 2015, at the suggestion of my therapist. Then school started, and then I started to get better (I like the imagery a friend of mine recently shared: my depression went into remission), so finishing this book wasn't a priority.

I'm kind of glad I didn't finish it months ago. I picked it back up today, with a problem on my mind that I wasn't sure how to solve. The chapters at the end of this book were exactly what I needed to read to solve that problem, and I'm energized to take an approach so different from what I usually take. This is the second of Brene Brown's books that I've read. Both have been invaluable. ( )