Creativity is the currency of vulnerability. Love is an expression of creativity and so is happiness because they are both so surprising and mysterious. It is risky to spend your currency but usually you end up with something better.
Tag: philosophy
Broken Hearts Heal in Surprising Ways
Broken hearts can heal “all at once”. They can also take a long time. When that space that used to be empty is filled again, it can even hurt a little bit. Growth is good, especially in the “heart space”.
The True Nature of Love
Love is the only thing in this universe that when you give it all away you end up with more than you started with.
Surprising Traits of True Friends
True friends keep the light in their heart, that is who you truly are, safe from the horrible story that you see about yourself at any given moment. They will come and go over the years and it will still be true.
Science and Quaience
Science is what happens when you reject a null hypothesis.
Quaience (quasi science) is what happens when you don’t, but the story is so powerful that it doesn’t matter.
Source: personal experience.
Brené Brown: The price of invulnerability
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- “equally fatalistic answers yet more creative”
- “on the verge of bliss and picturing something horrible happening”
- The fatalistic response if not universal
- Is a symptom of the universal
- We are losing our tolerance for vulnerability
- “Vulnerability is absolutely at the core of fear and anxiety and shame and very difficult emotions that we also experience”
- “Vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, of love, of belonging, of creativity, of faith”
- “Perfection is a tool to protect ourselves”
- “Faith – vulnerability = extremism”
- “Spirituality is inherently vulnerable”
- “We live in a culture that tells us at there is never enough (goodness)”
- “We are not extraordinary enough”
- “Somehow an ordinary life has become synonymous with a meaningless life”
- “In our ordinary life in ordinary moments is where we can find the most joy”
- Numbing society
- Most addicted, medicated, obese, in-debt, adult cohort, busy society
- “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up”
- “You cannot selective numb emotion”
- Numb pain, numb joy
- How to recover
- Practice gratitude
- Stop and be thankful for what we have
- Honor what is ordinary about our lives
- The people we love
- Play, community, nature (honor what is ordinary)
- If don’t experience those good things, our reservoirs will be empty when the bad things happen
Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying
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- Joy requires gratitude
- Joy is the most terrifying thing that humans experience
- “When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes forboding”
- “We try to beat vulnerability to the punch”
- “I know because I’m fixing to meet Oprah, I’m going to die” lolol
- “We’re trying to dress rehearse tragedy so we can beat vulnerability to the punch”
- When happy people feel that, they practice gratitude to defeat that fear
- “In a culture of scarcity, we are always searching for extraordinary when the truth is” (that we truly love the ordinary sweet things about our life)
Brené Brown: 3 Things You Can Do to Stop a Shame Spiral
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- Three counter-intuitive things
- Talk to yourself like you are someone you love when you are feeling unworthy
- Reach out to someone you trust
- Tell your story
- Shame cannot survive being spoken
- Shame requires: Secrecy, silence, judgement
- Antidote: Empathy
Brené Brown: Why Your Critics Aren't The Ones Who Count
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Brené Brown: 6 Types of People Who Do Not Deserve to Hear Your Shame Story
“You share with people who earn the right to hear your story”.
Here’s to “move the body” friends.
Here’s to people who want to be, no matter how much later.
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