Ted Talk Analysis
Anna Kaftan
March 22nd, 2020
1. URL: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
Brene Brown is a professor, lecturer, author and podcast host. Brown has h
...
Ted Talk Analysis
Anna Kaftan
March 22nd, 2020
1. URL: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o
Brene Brown is a professor, lecturer, author and podcast host. Brown has held the
Endowed Chair at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work. In addition, she
is a visiting professor in management at McCombs School of Business at the University of
Texas. The combination of Brown’s demeanor and message make her talks so powerful. She is
not just a motivational speaker who gives “feel-good” lines about love and acceptance; the work
she does is based on research and interviews.
2. Summary of the talk:
● Brene starts with connection and explains that connection is why we're here and what
gives purpose to our lives.
○ Example 37 things you did awesome but that one thing you “have an opportunity
for growth”
○ She relates this to when you ask people about love they’ll tell you about
heartbreak etc. and when you ask people about connection they’ll tell you about
disconnection.
● Unnamed thing unravels connection and she finds out its shame and fear and what
underpins this is excruciating vulnerability and in order to develop a connection you need
to be seen and have vulnerability.
● Shame boils down to her 1 year turning to 6 yrs thousands of stories and focus groups
and data and she got a handle on shame and wrote a book but something was not
okay..if she took the people she interviewed and divided them into people who have a
sense of worthiness and strong sense of love and belonging and those people believe
they’re worthy of love and belonging the one thing that keeps us out of connection is the
fear were not worthy of connection.
● Wholehearted people research group and wondered what the theme was..and she found
they all have courage, compassion and connection in common. These folks had the
courage to be imperfect and the compassion to be kind and connection as a result of
authenticity.
○ Let go of who you should be in order to be who they were..lastly they had
vulnerability in common and fully embraced it. She talks about how what makes
them vulnerable makes them beautiful and how vulnerability is necessary.
○ Ex. The willingness to say “I love you.” first. Brene meets with a therapist and
talks about how she has a vulnerability issue and how vulnerability is the core of
shame, fear and worthiness but it's also the birthplace of joy, creativity, belonging
and brene talks about how she has a problem. It took a year and was a year long
street fight and she won and wonders why she struggles with vulnerability. She
learned we “numb” vulnerability.
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