Personal Development

Vulnerability as Strength

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Embracing and harnessing weakness into your biggest strength
By The Blinkist Curators

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Personal Development

Allowing yourself to be and be seen as vulnerable can be terrifying, especially if you've been hurt before. Your natural instincts might be to protect and harden yourself. However, if you learn to lean into these emotions and allow yourself to process the discomfort, that in itself is a massive act of courage. These Blinks and Shortcast episodes encourage you to own your vulnerability, explore why vulnerability scares us and why we shy away from it, and show you real-life examples of people overcoming obstacles in their most vulnerable of times.

Vulnerability as Strength

Embracing and harnessing weakness into your biggest strength
Brené Brown: Power in Vulnerability
Brené Brown: Power in Vulnerability
Working creatively can be a really personal thing, so how do you decide which opinions matter and which to leave behind? Brené Brown joins Emily in this episode, to guide you to find a stronger, more authentic version of yourself.
10 min
4.5
Daring Greatly
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
20 min
4.5
What's This Thing Called Intimacy?
What's This Thing Called Intimacy?
Do you allow yourself to be vulnerable, or do you prefer playing it safe? As humans, we all need, desire, and seek intimacy. And yet—we also engage in patterns of thinking and behaviour that sabotage and block it. In this episode, Natalie will look at what intimacy is really about, and why running the risk of getting hurt is not a bad thing. You'll also learn what you can start doing right now to allow yourself to become more intimate and experience more genuine intimacy in your relationships, in turn.
10 min
4.8
Love Warrior
Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle
A Memoir
27 min
4.1
The Discomfort Zone
The Discomfort Zone
Marcia Reynolds
How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs
12 min
3.8
Farrah Storr: The Discomfort Zone
Farrah Storr: The Discomfort Zone
While it's natural to shy away from difficult or painful experiences in life, at some point in our lives we need to step up to the challenge. In this episode, award-winning writer and Elle Magazine editor, Farrah Storr, joins Emma to discuss the benefits of pushing through discomfort. Discomfort, she believes, is brief and essential for our growth and development as human beings; the more we push into it, the easier it becomes. You'll learn about the The BMD method, a strategy detailed in her bestselling book The Discomfort Zone, which prepares us for "Brief Moments of Discomfort" as we stand at the doorway of personal transformation.
5 min
4.4
Emotional Intelligence at Work: Liz Fosslien
Emotional Intelligence at Work: Liz Fosslien
Are you afraid of displaying your true emotions at work? The truth is, not showing how you really feel can block success for you and your colleagues, too. Emotional intelligence could be the answer. In this episode, author Liz Fosslein will tell you more about the art of mastering your emotions—and how selective vulnerability can win the trust of others to set you up for better collaboration and relationships at work.
8 min
4.3
You Are Your Best Thing
You Are Your Best Thing
Edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
31 min
4.1
The Undying
The Undying
Anne Boyer
Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
18 min
3.7
Imperfect Courage
Imperfect Courage
Jessica Honegger
Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared
22 min
3.5
Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
Brave work. Tough conversations. Whole hearts.
20 min
4.3
Welcoming the Unwelcome
Welcoming the Unwelcome
Pema Chödrön
Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
17 min
4.5
Bittersweet
Bittersweet
Susan Cain
How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
26 min
4.7
How to Fail
How to Fail
Elizabeth Day
Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
21 min
3.8
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