“[It] is our most accurate measurement of courage; it fuels our daily life”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change”
“You gotta dance with the one who brung ya”
“TED is the failure conference; very few people here are afraid to fail and have failed miserably many times”
“The credit goes to the man in the arena”
“Shames drives “Never good enough” and “Who do you think you are?””
Regarding men and shame, a male attendee shared that “You say to reach out, tell our story, be vulnerable… but [the most important women in my life] would rather me die on top of my white horse than watch me fall down. When [men] reach out and be vulnerable we get the shit beat out of us and don’t tell me it is [from other guys] it is the women in my life who are harder on me than anyone else”.
“Shame is an epidemic in our culture”
“Empathy is the antidote to shame”
“Me too; the two most powerful words when we are in struggle”
“Vulnerability is the path back to finding each other”