An Update on My Decision to Pause the Podcasts
We often joke about Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead being pause-casts, not podcasts. I have a habit of taking long pauses to think about a question or an answer. Last week, I took a bigger pause, and I’d like to walk you through it.
On Saturday, January 29, I posted across social media that I would not be releasing any podcasts until further notice. I’d had hundreds of comments across social media asking my opinion on the Spotify/Joe Rogan issue, and I didn’t know enough to comment. I didn’t w...
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Feb 02, 2022 04:32PM
Thanks for this blog post. I love the idea about about pausing, getting curious, and asking questions. We need more of all of that in these time.
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Excellent reminder to us all to get more information, investigate, and be fully informed before making decisions. Thank you Brene.
I was just introduced to your work by a friend, and just finished Daring Greatly and getting ready to read Braving the Wilderness. Daring Greatly was terrific, and I wish I had known about it the day it was published. Would have saved me a lot of missteps.I do think though that the issue is different for COVID misinformation than it is for hate speech and other types of 1st Amendment issues. If the Nazis want to take their tiki torches and run around for a couple of hours, fine; my exercise of my 1st Amendment rights is not to show up. They don't hurt me, I don't hurt them, the Founders are happy, c'est fini. But when someone like Rogan or Fox or any of the other founts of misinformation spread their venom, it does endanger both them and me, and my view, which I think the Supreme Court also has, is that your rights stop at my being. So if Joe Rogan wants to howl in the wilderness, I will contribute to his ticket. But let's not rely on a misinformation banner (that will almost certainly be ignored) to correct the situation. And with that, I turn it over to the other camp and let the abuse begin.
