TED Talk – Brené Brown, ‘Listening to shame’.

I watched this again recently and the part that resonated most is this:

“Shame is the enemy of innovation, creativity and change”

If you’re not one the 65 million people who watched Brené’s earlier TED talk – “The Power of Vulnerability” then it might be a good place to start.

If you have already seen that (and you remember it) then let’s go to “Listening to Shame”.  As Brené points out, shame is something we don’t want to discuss, but it’s something that is a real experience for nearly all of us (apparently if you don’t feel shame it’s an indicator of psychopathy) and it gets in the way of innovation, it gets in the way of creativity and it gets in the way of change.

What do we do about it?

Watch the video for a start…