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Brené Brown - "Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness." · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and this episode is brought to
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  you by the Great News Podcast because we could all use some
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  good news. Link is in the show notes.
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  Today's quote comes from Renee Brown, research professor, best
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  selling author, and the woman who's 2 Decades of work on
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  vulnerability, shame, and courage have inspired millions
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  of people to show up more honestly in their lives, their
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  relationships, and their work. From her book Daring Greatly,
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  she wrote vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like
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  courage. Truth and courage aren't always
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  comfortable, but they're never weakness.
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  Here's the objection you might be having when hearing this
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  quote. Vulnerability is weakness.
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  Showing your uncertainty, admitting your fear, letting
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  people see the unfinished and imperfect parts of you feels
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  dangerous. It feels like handing someone a
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  weapon. And so we close up and hide to
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  protect ourselves. We project confidence we don't
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  feel. We hide the struggle.
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  We act strong instead of being strong.
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  Brown spent 20 years in research collecting data on this exact
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  pattern, and what she found completely upended the
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  conventional wisdom. Vulnerability creates deeper,
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  more authentic connections because true sets people free,
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  and courage brings out the best in US while inspiring others to
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  do the same. Think about what Brown is
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  actually saying. Vulnerability sounds like truth,
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  meaning it requires you to speak honestly, even when honesty is
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  hard. And it feels like courage, which
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  means the discomfort you feel when you're being vulnerable
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  isn't a warning sign, it's confirmation that you're doing
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  something brave. Brown found that people who live
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  and love with their whole hearts, and who attribute their
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  professional success, their deepest relationships, and their
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  proudest moments to their willingness to be vulnerable,
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  share one thing in common. The courage to be imperfect.
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  Living life not absent of fear and not absent of doubt.
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  Just the willingness to show up anyway, honestly, as they
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  actually are. Because the final line of the
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  quote says they're never weakness.
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  The armor you've been wearing to protect yourself from
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  vulnerability isn't protecting you from weakness, it's
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  protecting you from connection, growth, and the kind of courage
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  that actually changes things. So here's the question, where in
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  your life are you currently choosing this self manufactured
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  armor over the truth performing strength instead of showing up
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  honestly? Because Brown's research is
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  clear, the vulnerability you're avoiding isn't weakness, it's
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  the doorway to everything worth having.
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  The connection, the courage, the life that actually feels real.
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  Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never
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  weakness. That's it for today.
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  I'm Anna McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.