You know when you hear something and you're just ready?īrené: Three things happened. if he fails, at least fails while Daring Greatly.' In that moment, my life changed. 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. He said, '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. That's when I found the Theodore Roosevelt quote. So instead I started googling to find out what was happening in the United States during the Downton Abbey period. I didn't want to go back to my world, where all that hurt was. So one day I sent my husband, Steve, to work, I sent my kids to school, and I sat on the couch in my pajamas and watched ten hours of Downton Abbey. It can be devastating.īrené: People were saying things like 'Less research, more Botox' and 'Maybe you'll be 'worthy' in 20 pounds.' And they all were anonymous, which is such-well, crapola! I'm not going to cuss, but it's chicken. And my therapist told me, 'Don't read the comments on the Internet.' My husband told me, 'Don't read the comments.' But I read the comments. I was on CNN.com I was doing an NPR interview. What happened is that I had done the talk, and all of a sudden I was everywhere. Oprah: And it's a Theodore Roosevelt quote.īrené: Yes. The title itself refers to a very personal moment in my life. It came out of your TED Talk, right?īrené: Yes, and a dozen years of vulnerability research. Oprah: And it feels like we're kindred spirits. Finally I said, 'Okay, I hear you.' And now you're here!

Brené Brown?' Then I saw you on the Internet, then somebody gave me your books-that's the way the universe works with me.

Oprah: I can't tell you how long people have been saying to me, 'You should interview Dr.

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