Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

by Brené Brown

If their issues become yours, now you have two people stuck in a hole.

mastery requires practice, and practice means you’ll screw it up big-time more than once.

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

a lot of us have bought in to the myth that gossiping or secret sharing hotwires connection.

Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

“Many parents have gone from helicopter parents to lawnmower parents. Instead of preparing the child for the path, we prepared the path for the child.”

Our organizations are littered with stories that people make up because they don’t have access to information.

stories based on limited real data and plentiful imagined data, blended into a coherent, emotionally satisfying version of reality, are called conspiracy theories.

Gottschall writes, “Conspiracy is not limited to the stupid, the ignorant, or the crazy. It is a reflex of the storytelling mind’s compulsive need for meaningful experience.”

Gottschall: “To the conspiratorial mind, shit never just happens.”