Brené Brown 1: The power of vulnerability

TEDxHouston 2010
Brené Brown 1: The power of vulnerability  (script)
Summary
The speaker Brené Brown started to study human connection. It's because human connection is why we're here and what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. She noticed that it is important for human connection to know about shame, because the only people who don't experience shame have no capacity for human connection.
And then, we're suffering about vulnerability. Vulnerability is the core of shame, fear and our struggle for worthiness.
However, people believe that they're worthy and  have a sense of courage. She thought that she had courage herself. She wanted to be strong, clean life's mess  and organize it.
However, their courage was to accept vulnerability. They embraced it and they believed that what made them vulnerable made them beautiful. Although they're suffering, they knew that the power of vulnerability is very important and it's the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, and of love.
 In fact, we live in a vulnerable world. One of the ways we deal with it is that we numb vulnerability.
We can't selectively numb emotion but  we don't want to feel these.  We don't have a choice that we have to  numb our grief, shame, fear and disappointment with our joy, gratitude and happiness.  This contradiction is to feel vulnerability which it means that we're alive. It is better for us to accept this and believe that we're enough. From this, our good connection will be created.
Words in this story
vulnerability  /noun/  vulnerable /adj/  susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.
embrace / an act of holding someone closely in one's arms.
numb / deprived of the power of sensation. unconscious, senseless.
contradiction / discrepancy, conflict.
selective /adj/ relating to or involving the selection of the most suitable or best qualified.