Ted Talk Analysis ​The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown - URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o

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Ted Talk Analysis Anna Kaftan March 22nd, 2020 1. URL: ​The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o Brene Brown is a professor, lecturer, author and po... dcast host. Brown has held the Endowed Chair at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work. In addition, she is a visiting professor in management at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. The combination of Brown’s demeanor and message make her talks so powerful. She is not just a motivational speaker who gives “feel-good” lines about love and acceptance; the work she does is based on research and interviews. 2. Summary of the talk: ● Brene starts with connection and explains that connection is why we're here and what gives purpose to our lives. ○ Example 37 things you did awesome but that one thing you “have an opportunity for growth” ○ She relates this to when you ask people about love they’ll tell you about heartbreak etc. and when you ask people about connection they’ll tell you about disconnection. ● Unnamed thing unravels connection and she finds out its shame and fear and what underpins this is excruciating vulnerability and in order to develop a connection you need to be seen and have vulnerability. ● Shame boils down to her 1 year turning to 6 yrs thousands of stories and focus groups and data and she got a handle on shame and wrote a book but something was not okay..if she took the people she interviewed and divided them into people who have a sense of worthiness and strong sense of love and belonging and those people believe they’re worthy of love and belonging the one thing that keeps us out of connection is the fear were not worthy of connection. ● Wholehearted people research group and wondered what the theme was..and she found they all have courage, compassion and connection in common. These folks had the courage to be imperfect and the compassion to be kind and connection as a result of authenticity. ○ Let go of who you should be in order to be who they were..lastly they had vulnerability in common and fully embraced it. She talks about how what makes them vulnerable makes them beautiful and how vulnerability is necessary. ○ Ex. The willingness to say “I love you.” first. Brene meets with a therapist and talks about how she has a vulnerability issue and how vulnerability is the core of shame, fear and worthiness but it's also the birthplace of joy, creativity, belonging and brene talks about how she has a problem. It took a year and was a year long street fight and she won and wonders why she struggles with vulnerability. She learned we “numb” vulnerability. [Show More]

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