The Power Of Vulnerability: A Ted Talk By Brene Brown

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We all live by different or many quotes, a quote that I live by is, “It's better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest of your life,” because in life you have to take risk, not everything is going to come to you easy. Sometimes you have to lose somethings in order to gain what you really want. In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a speech at Stanford University, he spoke about how he was close to death at a time, for him being close to death always made him want to do more. Bronnie Ware in the article Regrets of the Dying, she talks about how many people regret not doing things that they wanted to do and and start to regret not doing it once they are close to death. In the article The Power of Vulnerability: A Ted Talk by Brene Brown, she talks about how some people are not vulnerable and do not want to take risk in life to get where they want to be. I believe that we all have a meaning in life and we all have to be taking risk and doing what you feel is right and doing it, having a dream and making it come true.
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You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.,”(Jobs 18) saying that you have nothing to lose in life, you only have death assured in life more than anything else. Many people don't want to risk anything because they are scared of losing something, but in reality you are going to lose everything why not try and do everything while you are alive. You can only keep gaining knowledge, and that is something you can't lose. In the article The Power of Vulnerability: A Ted Talk by Brene Brown, lets us know, “They talked about the willingness to say, “I love you” first… the willingness to breathe through waiting for the doctor to call your mammogram.,” you have to take risk in life to get what you want even if that means being let

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