The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the number-one New York Times best sellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brené Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage and rising strong our clearest path to deeper meaning, wisdom, and hope.
Brene does it again! Rising Strong continues on past where her earlier books started us on the journey Having found great benefit in Brene’s earlier books (The Gift of Imperfection and Daring Greatly), I was looking forward to this book and was delighted to be offered the chance to read an advance copy. Rising Strong is, I believe, even better than her earlier works. Though it part, that is probably related to the fact that all three books are interrelated, with each building on the one that came before.Â
An uplifting book about how to rise up when you’ve fallen I’m new to Brene Brown, having just read her book six months ago. I had seen her name referenced online, but, before reading that book, had never watched her popular TED Talk or seen any of her television appearances; however, I was drawn to _The Gifts_ because the book’s focus on coming to terms with one’s sense of…
A bold call to fall, get up, and try again This book definitely works as a standalone piece, but it’s meant to build upon her prior works. As Brene shares in the first chapter, the progression of her works is that the first book, http://www.amazon.com/The-Gifts-Imperfection-Supposed-Embrace/dp/159285849X, has the message “Be you,” while the next one, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592408419/, is a call to “Be all in.” This book? “Fall. Get up. Try again.”Â