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Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

On My Mind: RBG, Surge Capacity, and Play as an Energy Source

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.624.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share my thoughts on the power of dissent, what happens when we max out our surge capacity during a crisis, and how time spent without purpose can refuel and reconnect us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone I'm Renee Brown and this is unlocking us. So if there's one thing that I've learned from 20 plus years of research on how we as humans think and feel and behave. It's simply

0:16.5

that if something is on my mind you're more than likely to be thinking about it too. If something's bothering me, it's probably not just bothering me. If I'm worried about something, it's probably a worried shared by many people.

0:30.0

It's like what I'm teaching and that one brave student raises their hand and asks a question and you can see 90% of the people in the classroom just melt with relief.

0:40.0

You know, they don't know the answer to the question either, they're stuck to, but they don't want to ask.

0:46.3

The hard part is if we don't raise our hand or share what's on our mind, it's so easy to

0:51.6

convince ourselves that we're completely alone and if you go back to the data,

0:56.0

you know we're almost never alone in our experiences.

1:00.0

So in the spirit of sharing what we're thinking about, I thought it could be worthwhile to record an occasional on my mind episode to check in and tell you what I'm learning, what I'm holding on to right now for dear life and some of the things I'm

1:17.1

trying like hell to let go of. Now my mind is not a place for the faint of heart.

1:23.6

It's a very strange place.

1:26.8

There's a lot of weird stuff that goes on in there.

1:29.9

So I'm just going to keep it to like my top three things.

1:32.7

So an on my mind episode.

1:38.0

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1:43.6

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1:48.2

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1:53.4

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1:56.0

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1:58.8

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2:01.2

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