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by Brené Brown
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Rising Strong describes a 3-phase process of bouncing back from failure, which you can implement both in your own life and as a team or company, in order to embrace setbacks as part of life, deal with your emotions, confront your own ideas and rise stronger every time.
Rising Strong describes a 3-phase process of bouncing back from failure, which you can implement both in your own life and as a team or company, in order to embrace setbacks as part of life, deal with your emotions, confront your own ideas and rise stronger every time.
Do you know someone who seems to take setbacks like they’re no big deal? Someone, who can pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and just soldier on, despite the odds being overwhelmingly against them? I know someone like that: me.
I’ve always had an unwavering sense of optimism, which my parents instilled in me, but only in the past two years has it become really productive, in the sense that I rarely fret about what went wrong and instead focus my energy on fixing it.
Therefore, I can vouch for the two steps Brené describes as the parts of reckoning with your emotions:
Recognize your emotions, by giving yourself permission to feel. Ask yourself why you’re feeling these emotions, be curious and investigate.
The reason this works is that by being curious, you’re automatically coming up with creative solutions.
For example, this morning a plumber came by our new flat to fix the water in the kitchen sink, bathroom sink and toilet. He arrived at 8:30 AM, and worked until 2 PM. I had to be there the whole time, and since there’s no wifi yet, I got frustrated that things took so long. After recognizing this and asking myself why, I noticed that it was because I felt he was keeping me from working, but immediately realized he’s helping me and that the more things he can fix right now, the less appointments I need to make in total.
My frustration went away instantly and I could relax, let him do his work, and thank him for his help when he left.
But in order to ask these questions, you first have to know what you’re feeling and that requires a lot of work and paying attention.
Trying to predict the future, based on what’s happened in the past is one way that the narrative fallacy makes us jump to the wrong conclusions. But this doesn’t just happen with logical facts and events, it also happens with our feelings. We make up stories to cope with our emotions, but sometimes these stories turn into traps we can’t seem to escape from. For example, if your partner leaves you for someone else, you’ll start asking yourself what you did wrong and might eventually come to the conclusion that you didn’t deserve them, because they were too good for you. This’ll help you deal with the break-up, but it will also trap you…
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Get the complete summary in the appReckoning is when you pay attention to your emotions and dare to ask questions about them.
Rumbling is what happens when you write down the story you tell yourself, real or not.
When you channel your insights from rumbling into positive changes, a revolution follows.
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Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers and is the host of two award-winning Spotify podcasts, Unl…
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