Tag: Brené Brown

Daring Greatly Year: 2012 Author: Brené Brown Length: 390 minutes / 6.50 hours You know that meme where someone asks others to just post what their therapist tells them so they don’t have to go to therapy? Well, this book is my answer to that question. My therapist at the time suggested reading Daring Greatly, and I think it helped frame half of the equation when it comes to loneliness. Often, we can self-exclude ourselves from community because we are ashamed of who we are, but Daring Greatly challenges the reader to overcome the fear we have of the potential shame we feel when being vulnerable with others. Much like Relational Masks highlighted how we use subconscious coping mechanisms to keep others at an arm’s length, Daring Greatly approaches from the other side of the relationship and shows how the fear of vulnerability is holding us back. Sure, there’s a risk we take when we try new things and don’t immediately succeed. Fear of failure can...