Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (#409) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
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Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (#409) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Embracing human limitations through self-compassion and accepting our fundamental vulnerability to life's uncertainties and uncontrollable events
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I feel like is part of this. I wanna tease out some of the core tenets in your work, many of which stem from 4 Weeks which is sort of your seminal work and we going to talk about meditations for mortals which is really a means of practically applying these same ideas. Is that fair? Yeah, I think it is.
Explain this idea of a limit-embracing life.
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I mean, so first of all, we are totally in the territory here of things that I end up writing about and thinking about because I desperately need them myself, right? I'm certainly a recovering perfectionist, which is the kind of, you know, people like to think it's a sort of thing you say about yourself and it's kind of really a brag, right?
It's
... See moreI try to make authenticity my number one goal when I go into a situation where I’m feeling vulnerable. If authenticity is my goal and I keep it real, I never regret it. I might get my feelings hurt, but I rarely feel shame. When acceptance or approval becomes my goal, and it doesn’t work out, that can trigger shame for me: “I’m not good enough.” If
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