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Brene Brown is one of the world’s leading experts on vulnerability. She states in this book and many others, that success comes to those who show up.
Show up when the times get hard. Show up when you feel like you’ve taken all you can. Show up in the midst of fear and anxiety.
Vulnerability is to let yourself be seen. Your true self be seen. In order to grow and reach our full potential, we need to put who we are, out there for criticism. Too often we get caught trying to portray a version of ourselves that fit what we believe others want to see. The problem is that by not being yourself and showing who you really are, vulnerability and the lessons it can teach you, will never reach you.
Hence, be vulnerable, open yourself up to the world, and take one step closer to reaching your full potential.
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In her book, Daring Greatly, Brene Brown talks about different methods in which we shield ourselves from vulnerability. One of these is with perfectionism. She writes:
"Perfectionism is not the path that leads us to our gifts and to our sense of purpose; it's a hazardous detour."
"Perfectionism is a defensive move. It's the belief that if we do things perfectly and look perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement and shame. Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around, thinking it will protect us, when in fact it's the thing that's really preventing us from being seen."
"Perfectionism is correlated with depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis or missed opportunities."
To read about my personal experiences and struggles with this issue please go to my blog:
www.thelaughingphotographer.tumblr.com/post/89666992125/p...
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
-Theodore Roosevelt