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In Brené Brown's 'Dare to Lead', she differentiates between shame, guilt, humiliation, and embarrassment. Shame is the feeling that we are flawed and unworthy of love and connection, it says 'You are bad'. Guilt, on the other hand, is related to our actions rather than our self-worth, it says 'You did something bad'. Humiliation is about the belief that someone else deserves to suffer. Embarrassment, unlike the others, is fleeting and can even become funny over time.
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Building emotional armor around our ego does not protect us from feeling unworthy, disconnected, or isolated—It in fact guarantees all of those feelings. One emotion we all try to avoid is shame. Yet it is also a universal experience, the awful feeling that we are flawed and unworthy of love and connection. Shame says, "You are bad." It is not the same as guilt, which says "You did something bad;" or humiliation, which says "They deserve to suffer;" or embarrassment, which is fleeting and even, eventually, funny.
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As the speaker and researcher of one of the five most-viewed TED talks in the world, Research Professor Brené Brown shares the essential skills that u...
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