This TEDX video on The Power Of Vulnerability from Brené Brown is superb. She’s a scientist who studies human connection. “I want to make messy topics not messy”. She set out to understand and outsmart vulnerability, and came to realise its importance in making human connections. And she talks about it in a very funny, yet very authentic way. She also makes some key points about how we numb ourselves from our fear.
SO relevant to finding success in life and in your career.
For years my shame was my depression. My family didn’t do mental health problems, and there was I with clinical depression. Only after I started out to talk about it did I discover that depression is rampant in my family, on both sides. My paternal grandfather had ECT for it in the ’50s. But nobody EVER talked about it.
After watching this video I have a new insight: the depression it wasn’t a breakdown, it was the start of my spiritual awakening!
I numbed myself with alcohol and over-eating in my depression.
How have you numbed yourself from the fear?
I’m reading Sheryl Sandberg’s book, 
It’s long been my contention that internet marketing is a highly suitable career for a woman, so I was interested to hear a (male) internet marketer remark recently that ‘we need more women tekkies, we need more female internet marketers’.
