Book Summary: Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

Are you daring to achieve great things? Why not be vulnerable and step into the arena? Reading Daring Greatly may just give you that push — it was a defining factor in me starting to write online…

Two sentence summary:

To dare greatly is to show up and let ourselves be seen, to be vulnerable and step into the arena. Brené Brown showcases that vulnerability is the cornerstone to all emotions, not just the negative, and to embrace vulnerability doesn’t show weakness, but instead shows courage.

Who should read this book?

Anybody who has a wall up to showing their true self. Leaders and managers responsible for organisation/workplace culture.

‘Man in the arena’ speech

A defining part of the book is the speech from Theodore Roosevelt…

‘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; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;

Who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high…