Dare Greatly
I really enjoyed Brene Brown’s ted talk about shame. I picked up on many different and interesting points she made as to what shame was and to how shame conditions us. She mentioned a quote that I really liked called the man in the arena quote by Theodore Roosevelt, this quote states: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds..” I like this quote because I believe often times we as humans are very judgemental. We see others that are not like us and make harsh judgements from “outside” the arena, when we in reality have no idea what it is like to be the man in the arena. Socially we are conditioned to compare ourselves to others. But that is when Brene points out that our greatest critics is ourselves. Media portrays this as always being better than you were yesterday, or being prettier than the other girl, so on and so forth. I liked her talk because it showed that there is so much more to a person than what is seen on the outside we all have our inner battles. I think she addresses well that we as humans must make a step to be better and dare greatly.
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