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Why Your Critics Aren’t the Ones Who Count
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Why Your Critics Aren’t the Ones Who Count

Brené Brown
99U, 2013
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In a rousing presentation, researcher Brené Brown exhibits genuine vulnerability by sharing a story about a low time in her life. She distills the lessons that episode taught her to help creatives handle the public scrutiny that accompanies exposure. getAbstract commends Brown’s brave, intimate and inspiring talk and suggests it to innovators, artists and performers who fear exhibiting their work for the public to dissect.

Take-Aways

  • Creatives have a heightened susceptibility to vulnerability as public exposure – “showing up and being seen” – is embedded in the nature of their work.
  • Buffer yourself from your haters by taking the stance that unless your critics also are exposing themselves and exhibiting vulnerability, their opinions are irrelevant.
  • Many creatives “armor up” emotionally and psychologically against vulnerability. Alas, such armor is impervious to the positive by-products of exposure, including “love, joy, belonging, trust, empathy, creativity and innovation.”

About the Speaker

Author Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, where she studies connection and vulnerability.

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