Scarica summary of a Tedtalk e più Esercizi in PDF di Lingua Inglese solo su Docsity! The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability The speaker of this Ted talk is Brené Brown a researcher who deals with social services. During her speech she explores the theme of connections between people, establishing that the secret of relationships is all in the power of vulnerability. First of all Brown begins her speech by considering vulnerability as key to human relationships. Infact, during her researches she realized that when she asked people to talk about love or relationships in the workplace or family, they were more likely to focus on afflictions and on the negative sides rather than on the positive ones. And in addition when she asked people about connection, the stories they told were about disconnection. Then Brown starts investigating one of the reasons of disconnection. First of all people are disconnected when they hide who they are, most times we conceal parts of ourselves because we are ashamed. Shame is a feeling that we all experience and that doesn't make us feel enough for others and makes us feel deeply vulnerable because we are intimidated by the possibility of not being accepted and loved for who we really are. From this assumption, Brown's research lasted six years, in whichs he analyzed many stories of relationships between people and very intimate stories of shame, reaching the conclusion that the difference between people who manage to create a connection and those who have difficulty to connect with other people lies in the ability to believe that you deserve love. Moreover, according to Brown another thing people who believe they deserve love have, is the acceptance of their vulnerability. In the sense that they don't talk about it in a negative or positive way, but as a necessary thing, which is part of us. Furthermore Brown continues her speech by explaining that vulnerability, an emotion we all feel, is often chased away, denied in our society often anesthetized with drugs, alcohol or food, in order not to feel the shame of not being enough, of not deserving love or of not being worthy. For Brown, the problem is wanting to deny this part of vulnerability in our lives by taming people from an early age to be perfect, instead of accepting one's imperfection as something necessary. Finally, she concludes her talk stating that is only when we see this part of ourselves and others without judgment that we create connection with each other because we are not ashamed of our vulnerability. In conclusion, as far as I am concerned the speech was really inspiring and I totally agree with the fact that vulnerability is the key to all and any human connections. Being able to be completely transparent with someone you love or you care about is something necessary in order to build a healthy relashionship.
