Se fermer à la vulnérabilité, c'est s'éloigner des expériences qui donnent du sens à la vie.
Vulnerability isn’t good or bad [...]Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings. To feel is to be vulnerable. To believe vulnerability is weakness is to believe that feeling is weakness. To foreclose on our emotional life out of a fear that the costs will be too high is to walk away from the very thing that gives purpose and meaning to living.
In his book Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, Robinson writes, “However seductive the machine metaphor may be for industrial production, human organizations are not actually mechanisms and people are not components in them."
Most people and most organizations can’t stand [...] the risk of real innovation. Learning and creating are inherently vulnerable. There’s never enough certainty. People want guarantees.
The irony is that when we’re standing across from someone who is hidden or shielded by masks and armor, we feel frustrated and disconnected. That’s the paradox here: Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you.
The word vulnerability is derived from the Latin word vulnerare, meaning “to wound.” The definition includes “capable of being wounded" [...]
If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work. [...] When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation.
Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.
There really is no triumph without vulnerability.
Together we will cry and face fear and grief. I will want to take away your pain, but instead I will sit with you and teach you how to feel it.
Putting down the measuring stick in a culture that uses acquisitions and accomplishments to assess worth is not easy.
There is no vision without vulnerability.
The size, severity, or complexity of a problem doesn’t always reflect our emotional reactivity to it.
We need to cultivate the courage to be uncomfortable and to teach the people around us how to accept discomfort as a part of growth.
Often ‘not being good at vulnerability’ means that we’re damn good at shame.
There is no trust test, no scoring system, no green light that tells us that it’s safe to let ourselves be seen.
Daring greatly isn’t a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.
