Audiobook Demo - The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
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Once you see a pattern, you can't unsee it. Trust me, I've tried. But when the same truth keeps repeating itself, it's hard to pretend that it's just a coincidence. For example, no matter how hard I try to convince myself that I can function on six hours of sleep, anything less than eight hours leaves me impatient, anxious and foraging for carbohydrates. It's a pattern. I also have a terrible procrastination pattern. I always put off writing by reorganizing my entire house and spending way too much time and money, buying office supplies and organizing systems every single time. One reason it's impossible to unseat trends is that our minds are engineered to seek out patterns and to assign meaning to them. Human Zahra, meaning making species. And for better or worse, my mind is actually fine tuned to do this. I spent years training for it, and now it's how I make my living. As a researcher, I observe human behavior so I can identify a name the subtle connections, relationships and patterns that help us make meaning of our thoughts, behaviors and feelings. I love what I do. Pattern hunting is wonderful work and in fact, throughout my career. My attempts at unseeing were strictly reserved for my personal life and those humbling vulnerabilities that I loved to deny. That all changed in November 2006 when the research that fills thes pages smacked me upside the head. For the first time in my career, I was desperate to unsee my own research. Up until that point, I had dedicated my career to studying difficult emotions like shame, fear and vulnerability. I had written academic pieces on shame, developed a shame resilience, curriculum for mental health and addictions professionals, and written a book about shame. Resilience called. I thought it was just me.