Braving the Wilderness
The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
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The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Ratings49
Average rating4
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart! “True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, MSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives—experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization. With her trademark mix of research, storytelling, and honesty, Brown will again change the cultural conversation while mapping a clear path to true belonging. Brown argues that we’re experiencing a spiritual crisis of disconnection, and introduces four practices of true belonging that challenge everything we believe about ourselves and each other. She writes, “True belonging requires us to believe in and belong to ourselves so fully that we can find sacredness both in being a part of something and in standing alone when necessary. But in a culture that’s rife with perfectionism and pleasing, and with the erosion of civility, it’s easy to stay quiet, hide in our ideological bunkers, or fit in rather than show up as our true selves and brave the wilderness of uncertainty and criticism. But true belonging is not something we negotiate or accomplish with others; it’s a daily practice that demands integrity and authenticity. It’s a personal commitment that we carry in our hearts.” Brown offers us the clarity and courage we need to find our way back to ourselves and to each other. And that path cuts right through the wilderness. Brown writes, “The wilderness is an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it’s the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand.”
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At one point while reading the first chapter of this book, I almost had to throw the book across the room, because the point Brown made hit so close to home. This is very timely, for the state of the world right now as well as the state of my own life. It's an accessible read yet challenging as well.
Short book. The whole book has an intimate feel to it.
I had a few takeaways:
(1) Give yourself permission to have fun. She says she actually uses written permission slips for this.
(2) “It's hard to hate close up” Get to know people, listen without judgement. Yes, this will be hard
(3) sharing joy and grief with others makes us happier - do things with other people in real life.
Gosto da Brené, desde antes desta hype devido ao filme do Netflix. Fui uma das pessoas responsáveis pelos 4M de Views quando publicaram pela primeira vez o TEDx sobre vulnerabilidade. E a acho incrível desde então. Pois ela é, ou pelo menos transmite ser, uma pessoa que realmente se esforça e se preocupa com seu trabalho e acredita nele. Gosto dos exemplos que ela oferece para justificar seu ponto de vista, muito embora o que ela proponha seja muito difícil de concretizar nesse mundo de loucuras que vivemos hoje.
No entanto, o livro começa ótimo [muito similar ao TED inclusive, só faltou ela dizer ‘como eu disse há minutos atrás...' e seguir como se nada tivesse ocorrido], mas em alguns momentos, acho que ela se extende e delonga em pontos que já foram explanados, mas mais uma vez são reforçados, e acabei me perdendo no que realmente importava [como sair do ponto de true belonging para embrace de wilderness num Back and forth a toda velocidade, mas enfim]. Ou seu posicionamento ácido com algumas questões que, na minha vida prática por exemplo, não seriam possíveis de serem tomados.
Fato que não impediu em momento algum de me emocionar, dar umas risadas altas, ou tomar nota de frases que quero levar para projetos futuros, e mencionar figuras do meio das celebridades [como a historia de vida chocante da Viola Davis / chocada até os últimos respiros da minha pequena vida], ou dos autores que a inspiraram e figuras cultas.
Seguirei acompanhando o trabalho dela, e espero que tenha uma desenvoltura de outros temas, com mais bom exemplos.
