WEEK 2 - 2. Reading: "Dare to Lead" by Brene Brown (BB) - Chapter 1

Pre-reading tasks for Ch. 1:

  1. How do you define vulnerability? How does Brown define vulnerability?


Vulnerability is showing how weak you are. How easily to get hurt a person is.

Vulnerability  is defined as “uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. Brené says that “vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy and creativity.


2. Why do we need feedback? Whose feedback matters to you?

because feedback always provides you with a fresh view of things, from a different perspective
My kids -my oldest daughter, my director, my partners in the business


3. Which vulnerability myth do you see demonstrated in your school/family/life?

You can engineer discomfort out of vulnerability:

There is no way we take the discomfort out of vulnerability, it is there and it will be there. We just need to learn how to deal with it and how to make it less of a problem. When we don't know something in class, we may not feel like participating, like asking a question, we feel in a vulnerable position and that makes us not to be part of the group and sometimes become invisible. 
However, if we learned to handle this and focus on the real problem and solution: I don't know I have to ask, things will be completely different. 








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