The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
by Brené Brown
View on GoodreadsBrown's earlier audio-program-and-book treatment of her vulnerability and shame research — predating Daring Greatly as a standalone book — and serving as the comprehensive introduction to her framework for audiences who came to her through the TED talk.
Core ideas
- The shame/guilt distinction (shame = "I am bad," guilt = "I did something bad") is established here as the load-bearing analytical move that everything else in Brown's corpus depends on.
- The "wholehearted living" framework — ten guideposts moving from perfectionism toward self-acceptance — predates the more specific frameworks in the later books and is the foundational material the later work builds on.
- The audio/book overlap means there's redundancy with the other Brown books in your library — reading this plus Daring Greatly produces some repetition, but the framing is different enough to justify both.
Published2013
Pages1
ISBN9781604078589
ReadNov 2020
