On that point about me and vulnerability, is vulnerability important?

Because there's a lot of performative vulnerability taking place.

For sure.

Is it an important thing for my health, happiness, my future, to be a vulnerable person?

Well, let's define it.

Vulnerability is the emotion we experience when we have, when we are up against uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

So vulnerability is what I feel.

It's the cringe, the awkward, the thing that I, the emotion I feel in times of uncertainty, risk, or emotional exposure.

So it was really interesting because I had a hard time helping people understand because we're so

raised to believe that vulnerability is weakness that it took a trip to Fort Bragg working with

special forces to ask soldiers a question.

Give me a single example of courage in your life.

One example that you've witnessed or you yourself have done.

One example of courage that did not require uncertainty, risk, or emotional exposure.

No one could answer it. Finally, a young soldier stood up and said

three tours. There is no courage without vulnerability. So is vulnerability important? It is if we want to

be brave with our lives. If we want to be able to manage ourselves in a way that's values aligned

and courageous, we have to be able to reconcile

how we feel when we're uncertain at risk are exposed. I mean, and really, weirdly, the next week

after the trip to Fort Bragg, I was with the Seattle Seahawks, the football team, NFL team.

Yeah.

Ask the players.

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