Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart - Part 2

We cannot be more connected to other people than we are to ourselves.

Do not try to forge connection with others or build a culture of connection until you are fully connected and know yourself.

For about 10 years, we've had one question, and we use it to vet everything that comes in—every speaking request, every podcast, everything, which is 'Does this serve the work and the research?'

I am as ambitious personally as I am professionally. I'm not going to miss a water polo game. I'm not going to miss an event for my kids.

I think if we don't figure out how to hold ourselves and other people accountable in a way that doesn't include shame and vitriol and belittling... You have to be accountable for your actions; you have to be accountable for what you say; you have to be accountable for policies. I think if we don't better understand accountability, I think it's going to be a long walk.

The far enemy of connection is disconnection ... But the near enemy of connection is control.

The more the drinking and the partying got out of hand, the less connected I was with my superpower of being able to understand myself and other people.

I do not think it is possible to learn how to recognize emotion in other people. I think that's bad business.

What a 'near enemy' is, it is an emotion or a virtue that looks and feels and masquerades like the thing that we are looking for or want to be, but it sabotages it.

Worry is defined as a chain of negative thoughts about things that might happen in the future.