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Daring Greatly

Written by Brené Brown

Narrated by Karen White

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Every day we experience the uncertainty and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable. Here, Dr. Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, saying it is not weakness but rather our clearest path to courage and meaningful connection.

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Power of vulnerability...

Renowned researcher and TED Talks lecturer, Brené Brown explores the paradox of power in vulnerability. Learn to accept uncertainty, risk, and fear as opportunities for authenticity and success.

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Release dateSep 11, 2012
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Daring Greatly
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Brené Brown

Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers and is the host of two award-winning podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead. Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her titles include Atlas of the Heart, Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the best-selling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience. Brené’s TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 60 million views. Brené is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix, and in March 2022, she launched a new show on HBO Max that focuses on her latest book, Atlas of the Heart. Brené spends most of her time working in organizations around the world, helping develop braver leaders and more-courageous cultures. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie, and a weird Bichon named Lucy.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Provided some food for thought and dovetailed nicely with the research on 12 step programs and how their success lies in the recipe for authentic connection rather than abstinence itself. Jazzy formatting notwithstanding, there's a lot of nuance packed into it making it a slower read than I expected.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    If you've heard/seen Brené's videos from TED or elsewhere, it's interesting to hear this in audiobook form, and not read by the author. It's also largely expected content; Brown fleshes out the ideas that you've heard her speak. She's a good storyteller (after all, "stories are just data with a soul"), and engaging as a writer. But I sort of think that I've reached saturation on this particular book. It's good, but would have been better if I'd read it a few years ago when it was more in the zeitgeist.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Brene Brown, a social worker and TED conference speaker, praises the transformative power of vulnerability. Citing psychological and sociological studies, she demonstrates that living "wholeheartedly" (truly open to criticism, our own fallibility, and the discomfort of others' vulnerability) creates better families and organizations. Convincing and engaging.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    In Daring Greatly, Brene Brown borrows the words of Theodore Roosevelt to encourage us to find the courage to be vulnerable. Vulnerability, which she says encompasses uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure, “sounds like truth and feel like courage”. The book takes a very common sense, practical approach. Findings from the author’s extensive research are presented, and this is done in a way that is engaging and didn’t feel like reading about research.The author challenges several myths about vulnerability, including the idea that it is a weakness. She points out that daring greatly requires challenging shame and the gremlins it fills our heads with. She has come up with term “gremlin ninja warrior training” to describe how to build shame resilience; this includes recognizing shame, talking about how you feel, and reaching out for help.She identifies varies strategies (e.g. perfectionism and numbing) that we use to shield ourselves from vulnerability, and ways that we can break down those shields that are holding us back. She believes that disengagement underlies many social problems, and this is influenced by the gap between our the values we practice and the values we aspire to. She offers “minding the gap” as a daring greatly strategy to combat this.The section on rehumanizing education and work resonated particularly strongly with me, as I have experienced workplace bullying. A culture of shame in the workplace may be demonstrated through behaviours such as blaming, gossiping, favouritism, name-calling, and harassment. It can be even more overt when shame is used as a management tool through the use of “bullying, criticism in front of colleagues, public reprimands, or reward systems that intentionally belittle people.” This kind of shaming “crushes our tolerance for vulnerability, thereby killing engagement, innovation, creativity, productivity, and trust.”There is also a chapter devoted to parenting. Parenting has been shown to be a key predictor in how susceptible children are to shame, and children need to experience compassion, connection, worthiness, and belonging, not fear, blame, shame, and judgment. None of the recommendations she makes are new and earthshattering, but they are all powerful and remind us to be aware of the messages we are conveying and behaviours we are modelling.Society often tells us that being vulnerable is a sign of weakness. This book does an excellent job of challenging that and demonstrating how courageous and powerful being vulnerable really is. Mental illness in particular tends to make us fearful of being vulnerable, and this book offers some very good food for thought.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    some good stuff; some of it seemed oversimplified
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brene Brown's view on living wholeheartedly is one that needs to be explored by all and practiced on a regular basis. I'm still amazed that this entire book stems from so many years of detailed research that she put into it. She is honest (and vulnerable) in calling out where she has missed the boat in her research previously as she calls herself out and opens up her research to include a wider perspective, which is impressive and earned my trust immediately. I have never been one to read a lot of self-improvement books in the past, but have read more in the past year, so although many have been reading Brene Brown for years, this was my first book of hers, and I am truly impressed by her candor, intelligence, views, and perspective. This is a book that everyone would benefit from, no matter what age or life circumstance.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brene Brown's view on living wholeheartedly is one that needs to be explored by all and practiced on a regular basis. I'm still amazed that this entire book stems from so many years of detailed research that she put into it. She is honest (and vulnerable) in calling out where she has missed the boat in her research previously as she calls herself out and opens up her research to include a wider perspective, which is impressive and earned my trust immediately. I have never been one to read a lot of self-improvement books in the past, but have read more in the past year, so although many have been reading Brene Brown for years, this was my first book of hers, and I am truly impressed by her candor, intelligence, views, and perspective. This is a book that everyone would benefit from, no matter what age or life circumstance.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A book practicing what it preaches: the core need for vulnerability to overcome shame and to prove resilient to shame in order to more effectively life and relate to other people.The book is written in terms of the author's journey as a researcher, only to discover that the very things she was researching proved necessary in her own life. She speaks of "Wholehearted" people, those who developed effective techniques for handling difficulties in life in healthy ways. Wholeheartedness proved strongly related to a willingness to prove vulnerable and practicing shame resilience. The author speaks of vulnerability and its need: the willingness to take risks and to be uncomfortable in openness to others and to experiences. She spends much time discussing shame: what it is, the internalized voice we all have, shame's toolkit, and how we can prove more resilient in the face of shame. Specific applications are made in terms of the business environment and in terms of parenting and child development. Throughout the book one notices how the author seeks to be vulnerable herself and to communicate in ways which do not shame but facilitate openness. Quite worth consideration.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Excellent...I am changed in the positive for having read it...highly recommended!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Rarely do I give a book 5 stars, but for me, this book was nothing less than transformative. Brene Brown comes across as a regular, flawed person who has found her way out of the dark with a great deal of effort. For her to be able to deliver this information on how she did it and we can too in a funny, uplifting manner is an incredible accomplishment. If you have never struggled with vulnerability, then you are very lucky- but this book might not be for you. If you a person that struggles every day to believe you are good enough, despite your many achievements, I cannot recommend this book enough. Diving deeper into what the underlying causes of that "not got enough" feeling are was illuminating for me. Now that I understand it, I too can muster the courage to Dare Greatly. I am immensely grateful for this book and for Brown's bravery in writing it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Another brilliant book from Brene. Highly recommended. It takes the research a step further than the Gift of Imperfection. There are some great insights in this book. Looking forward to reading her latest book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    If more people understood what shame really does to people, there would be a lot less shaming going on. Shame has no positive uses, and as a society we need to learn to stop imposing it on people. I highly recommend this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A wholehearted treatise on living (and thriving) with vulnerability, grounded in research but written in an accessible, actionable manner.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a very interesting and thought provoking book. I was pleasantly surprised by the specific attention paid to teaching and parenting. I listened to it on audio, but it had so many intriguing ideas, I plan to reread it in print.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brene brown changed my life.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It took time to read this book because I wanted a lot of the messages to sink in better. If you love Brene Brown's TED talks you'll love this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    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.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    After engaging for over ten years in scientific research on the topics of shame, vulnerability, and courage, the faculty and UT multimedia figure Brene Brown, is regarded as an expert. Fred Smoot assigned her books as texts for discussion among the chaplains during clinical training.Brown unfolds the connections between shame and vulnerability, revealing them as powerful tools for developing compassion and true courage.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Daring Greatly is not about winning or losing. It’s about courage. In a world where “never enough” dominates and feeling afraid has become second nature, vulnerability is subversive. Uncomfortable. It’s even a little dangerous at times. And, without question, putting ourselves out there means there’s a far greater risk of getting criticized or feeling hurt. But when we step back and examine our lives, we will find that nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous, and hurtful as standing on the outside of our lives looking in and wondering what it would be like if we had the courage to step into the arena—whether it’s a new relationship, an important meeting, the creative process, or a difficult family conversation. Daring Greatly is a practice and a powerful new vision for letting ourselves be seen.I think you’re either a person that reads self-help books and gets something out of them or you’re not. I usually do not. I fully admit that I’m not a very introspective person and I’m sure that’s why. It’s definitely not because I think I’m perfect or anything. I remember feeling left out in college when my friends were “finding themselves” and having deep conversations about the meaning of life. I told my mom about it and she said, “Well, not everyone can sit around analyzing themselves all day or nothing would ever get done.” Hmm…wonder where I get it from?The theme of Daring Greatly is that we should dare to be vulnerable and that there is a difference between shame and guilt. Shame is bad and guilt is not. Also, there is a difference between being vulnerable and just vomiting up your problems to anyone who will listen. Your vulnerability has to have appropriate boundaries.I don’t disagree with anything Brown is saying, I’m just not sure how to put it to use in my real life. To me, being vulnerable is being open about your insecurities. But how do you express that without sounding like a whiner? I need concrete examples. I looked up my review of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, another self-helpish book I’ve read and that’s the same thing I said about that book!Daring Greatly did lead to a really good discussion in my book club – one of the best we’ve had. I think that’s because we are all pretty close friends and we were able to be vulnerable with each other while discussing this book. I’m not sure it would as good of a discussion if the book club members were just acquaintances.I know there are tons of people who worship Brené Brown, a lot of my friends included. I can see why but at the same time, I don’t see myself reading any more of her books.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    An insightful glimpse at vulnerability, shame, and living wholeheartedly. I've learned a few methods I'd like to try in my teaching.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I’m glad I finally read (listened) to this, considering I’ve read most of Brown’s other books. This seems to be the big one from which almost all the others are rooted. It helped me look back and reconsider some defining situations in my life, so for that I’m grateful.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    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
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I did not have enough time to listen to this book in audio form. I enjoy this author and will most likely pick it up again when I have time.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I devoured this book. Some personal development books can be too academic and dry. I loved Brene Brown's approachable and down to earth style and appreciated her courage in sharing her own experiences throughout her journey researching shame. An inspiring and insightful read for those on a personal path of growth.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I loved this book. Great things I can use. How people numb their emotions in different ways and to remember that if you're numbing sadness you are also numbing joy. Helps to identify when you feel the most vulnerable and how to combat that. For me it's happiness that scares me to death and gratitude that is the "antidote" for that fear. Helps you look at the "gap" between how you want to act and how you actually act. Points out that parenting is more about showing our kids through our own lives rather than telling them. And the all-important allowing them to struggle and fail so they can cultivate their own resilience and hope. Just a great book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Brene brown changed my life.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I've been a fan of Brene Brown ever since I stumbled across a video of a TED talk she did a few years back. I initially tracked down a library copy of this book but quickly realized I needed to buy a copy so that I could mark it up.Dr. Brown has done extensive research on the corrosive role that shame plays in human relations. She sees admitting our innate vulnerability as the secret to healing ourselves and connecting with others.Lots of food for thought in this book.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fantastic book says I who doesn't really like self-help books and rarely, if ever, have actually ever finished one. But this one is so relatable and well-written with just the right about of humor that I enjoyed it immensely. It also could not have come at a better time in my life when I was on the verge of chickening out or daring greatly and with Ms. Brown's help. I went for it and it was not not as painful as I imagined. I still didn't succeed in the typical sense of the word, but I showed up and sometimes that counts as a victory.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A new favorite quote, from Theodore Roosevelt: "It's not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the person who is in the arena. Whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly ..." And this from a person who writes little critical comments about all the books she reads.And is constantly dismayed with the State of the World.A reminder to self: Spend more time in the arena and less in the stands.