Brené Brown: The Call to Courage

It's helpful if you watch Dr. Brown's life changing Ted talks on YouTube prior to diving in to her wonderful Netflix special, but not necessary.

This special seems like the natural growth progression for Dr. Brown, a self proclaimed introvert, and plays out like a much needed conversation between friends.

It varies between candid and quite funny personal stories, continued observations on courage and vulnerability, and overcoming the challenges of overnight fame as a researcher and intellectual.

Dr. Brown is a soothing voice of calm and reason in a time where people's fear of being hurt outweighs their desire to feel joy and happiness.

There is so much to be gained from the words of Brene Brown and time with a trusted friend is never time wasted.

Oh wow what a grift if I ever heard one. She's noting "pertinent" personal life stories to illustrate how she's come *so far* to be courageous and vulnerable, but ends up just sounding like a tone-deaf narcissist who wants to talk about herself and employs subtle ways of positioning in a category of expertise where she has very little? She's way better off spouting her cold academic "research" rather than trying to speak from experience. This whole thing just comes off like a remedial piece designed to introduce narcissists to the concept of empathy and vulnerability- and the irony there is, it can't be taught which renders this whole thing a scam. Absolute waste of time.

I never heard about Brene Brown. Just came across this documentary and decided to watch it. It started just like another one guru talk and I thought I'm definitely not gonna like it. But oh man it just sucks you in. Her humor is just amazing. Made me laugh and made me almost cry.

There was not to much to learn from it, but anyway it was worth watching. You can easily relate to her stories because she talks about ordinary things, about normal life in family, about things that lot of us actually do and think about.

Conclusion: fun, easy to listen, worth watching.

Take away: Vulnerability is important because it connects us with other people on deeper level. It has important role in building trust. Being vulnerable means being brave.

I had never heard of Brene Brown before I stumbled across her netflix special, The Call to Courage. Within the first few minutes she had me hooked, her personal stories moved me to tears and laughter while making me see things in life from another perspective. It is definitely worth the watch and now I am off to seek out more of Brene Brown!

First of all English is not my native language, however I really disliked how she delivered it The language she used is very similar to 20 years old noisy American tourists in Rome. She is using words like "dude, OMG, right?, ass etc". all the time. She is so krass. Yet she is talking on very human feelings like shame, vulnerability, courage etc. It sounds like a very uneducated, random housewife is trying to impress people. Not like a sophisticated, profound academic. She could choose a tone for the general audience that would not make her look like a cheap Hollywood movie, but still keep them engaged. She is well experienced, matured and educated to better know how to speak about serious topics with the right attitude. However, she chose to be a dying to be a comedian over Netflix academic. A little of faith in yourself Brené!