My most recent Brene Brown read, or more accurately listen, is Rising Strong. Brene reads this book and it is so much better to hear a non-fiction book in the voice of the author. Some of my favorite advice from this book is to not take opinions from people who are not also in the "arena", or in other words, fighting hard their own battles. It is easy for people on the sidelines to tell you how they would do it or criticize your methods, but they aren't out there doing it. Don't listen to them. Listen to yourself.
She also talks quite a bit about empathy, about trying to understand the people around us. I feel very strongly that she is correct on this. In her words:
Empathy is not finite, and compassion is not a pizza with eight slices. When you practice empathy and compassion with someone, there is not less of these qualities to go around. There's more.
I really love that. All in all, this wasn't my favorite of her books. I think Braving the Wilderness still holds that spot, but there was a lot of good material in this one as well.
I'm a big Brene Brown fan.
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