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# Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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Review: Good read, important knowledge, read it please - Well worth the read, brain food and insight.
Review: Daring Greatly, in intercultural perspective - This review of Brown's book takes a perspective of Christian Mission to the majority World, especially Africa. The author of this review has spent nearly 30 years, while serving in Africa, encouraging other missionaries to be vulnerable. Hence his fascination with Brown’s observations on vulnerability. In summary, Brown tells us that many problems in family, school, and organization are caused through inadequate recognition of the power of shame. Rigid machine-likeness that characterises today’s modern results-oriented society, stultifies innovation, relationship, joy, and creativity, and results in disengagement. Manoeuvring through shame, by enacting appropriate levels of vulnerability, in necessary combination with profound spirituality, results in healthy overcoming of shame, which brings about wholeheartedness. In parts of the majority world, especially Africa, taboos supporting traditional customs backed by the power of ancestors, are driven by the power of shame. (Brown makes no reference to majority world contexts. As mentioned above, this review endeavours to translate her book into some majority world contexts.) Vulnerability, which is “uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure” is also “the core of all emotions and feelings” and “creativity, Innovation, and learning”, Brown tells us (p33, p187). Her analysis adds, to me, clarification to an already clear need for vulnerability in intercultural relationship. Intercultural missionaries often struggle to win the trust of people they are reaching. Vulnerability, says Brown, is a prerequisite for winning trust (p47). I agree. That is a profound, and very challenging, observation. Brown tells us that vulnerability is a prerequisite for love and for belonging. Those who fear vulnerability, she emphasizes, become cruel, cynical, and critical. The functioning of effective feedback loops requires vulnerability. Brown’s observations ring true. The giving and receiving of feedback can bring extreme relational volatility. While feedback-loops are essential for organisational success, what to one person may be positive feedback, may not be so received by another! Only vulnerability can guarantee feedback effectiveness. Brown is a shame researcher. Her studies of shame took her to analysis of vulnerability. Someone is shamed when their identity is linked to their failings. Missionaries who fear vulnerability fear an appearance of failure in the eyes of their supporters. They fear being enveloped by the very poverty that they supposedly come to resolve. These fears undermine vulnerability. A solution, Brown tells us, is self-compassion. This leads to wholehearted living, which is dependent on having a healthy spirituality, Brown (who is a Christian) tells us. Vulnerability, and the resultant trust by nationals, love, and belonging, can be achieved if missionaries separate their failings from their identity. Then they can be forgiven. ‘Guilt’ is ‘I have failed’. Unlike shame, guilt can be forgiven. The much more destructive shame is ‘I am a failure’, causing someone to give up and disengage (p66). Missionaries who intend to minister over a long term need to learn that God can forgive their failings – they may be guilty of some things, but they need not be ashamed. Brown talks of a gap needing to be filled. The gap is between what we say, and what we do. The gap can be overcome through honesty, which can only arise from a readiness to be vulnerable. Dis-honesty, in this sense, results in withdrawal, through disengagement. Many of Brown’s examples draw on the US educational sector. Teachers shamed when students’ results are too low, disengage from profound upbuilding-relationships with students, in favour of simply passing on information needed in examinations. So also, missionaries being set on achieving the kinds of results recognised by Westerners, especially by donors, pre-empts vulnerable engagement with majority world cultures, that could in the long run be the most innovative and profoundly transformative. Vulnerability, which includes refusal to be victim to shaming mechanisms (considered by Brown to be Gremlins; which should remind us of evil spirits), could transform mission approaches. Such a link, between Brown's writing and potential missionary fruitfulness, should not surprise us: Brown works with profoundly Christian paradigms in all but name, implicitly positioning us in a position where we should become vulnerable to God himself.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | 0241257409 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 2,902 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 21 in Psychological Schools of Thought 30 in Parenting (Books) 32 in Emotional Self Help |
| Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (30,168) |
| Dimensions  | 12.8 x 1.8 x 19.6 cm |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 9780241257401 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0241257401 |
| Item weight  | 213 g |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 304 pages |
| Publication date  | 3 Dec. 2015 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Life |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good read, important knowledge, read it please
*by A***R on 24 January 2026*

Well worth the read, brain food and insight.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Daring Greatly, in intercultural perspective
*by J***S on 11 November 2016*

This review of Brown's book takes a perspective of Christian Mission to the majority World, especially Africa. The author of this review has spent nearly 30 years, while serving in Africa, encouraging other missionaries to be vulnerable. Hence his fascination with Brown’s observations on vulnerability. In summary, Brown tells us that many problems in family, school, and organization are caused through inadequate recognition of the power of shame. Rigid machine-likeness that characterises today’s modern results-oriented society, stultifies innovation, relationship, joy, and creativity, and results in disengagement. Manoeuvring through shame, by enacting appropriate levels of vulnerability, in necessary combination with profound spirituality, results in healthy overcoming of shame, which brings about wholeheartedness. In parts of the majority world, especially Africa, taboos supporting traditional customs backed by the power of ancestors, are driven by the power of shame. (Brown makes no reference to majority world contexts. As mentioned above, this review endeavours to translate her book into some majority world contexts.) Vulnerability, which is “uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure” is also “the core of all emotions and feelings” and “creativity, Innovation, and learning”, Brown tells us (p33, p187). Her analysis adds, to me, clarification to an already clear need for vulnerability in intercultural relationship. Intercultural missionaries often struggle to win the trust of people they are reaching. Vulnerability, says Brown, is a prerequisite for winning trust (p47). I agree. That is a profound, and very challenging, observation. Brown tells us that vulnerability is a prerequisite for love and for belonging. Those who fear vulnerability, she emphasizes, become cruel, cynical, and critical. The functioning of effective feedback loops requires vulnerability. Brown’s observations ring true. The giving and receiving of feedback can bring extreme relational volatility. While feedback-loops are essential for organisational success, what to one person may be positive feedback, may not be so received by another! Only vulnerability can guarantee feedback effectiveness. Brown is a shame researcher. Her studies of shame took her to analysis of vulnerability. Someone is shamed when their identity is linked to their failings. Missionaries who fear vulnerability fear an appearance of failure in the eyes of their supporters. They fear being enveloped by the very poverty that they supposedly come to resolve. These fears undermine vulnerability. A solution, Brown tells us, is self-compassion. This leads to wholehearted living, which is dependent on having a healthy spirituality, Brown (who is a Christian) tells us. Vulnerability, and the resultant trust by nationals, love, and belonging, can be achieved if missionaries separate their failings from their identity. Then they can be forgiven. ‘Guilt’ is ‘I have failed’. Unlike shame, guilt can be forgiven. The much more destructive shame is ‘I am a failure’, causing someone to give up and disengage (p66). Missionaries who intend to minister over a long term need to learn that God can forgive their failings – they may be guilty of some things, but they need not be ashamed. Brown talks of a gap needing to be filled. The gap is between what we say, and what we do. The gap can be overcome through honesty, which can only arise from a readiness to be vulnerable. Dis-honesty, in this sense, results in withdrawal, through disengagement. Many of Brown’s examples draw on the US educational sector. Teachers shamed when students’ results are too low, disengage from profound upbuilding-relationships with students, in favour of simply passing on information needed in examinations. So also, missionaries being set on achieving the kinds of results recognised by Westerners, especially by donors, pre-empts vulnerable engagement with majority world cultures, that could in the long run be the most innovative and profoundly transformative. Vulnerability, which includes refusal to be victim to shaming mechanisms (considered by Brown to be Gremlins; which should remind us of evil spirits), could transform mission approaches. Such a link, between Brown's writing and potential missionary fruitfulness, should not surprise us: Brown works with profoundly Christian paradigms in all but name, implicitly positioning us in a position where we should become vulnerable to God himself.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Buckle up...there’s a lot to learn
*by N***S on 19 December 2020*

Brought this as a cd for in the car....it’s very intense from start to finish,there’s a lot to take in and think about ( I may have been better with the book) I liked the cd for convenience ,I had to listen to each disc a couple of times for it to sink in.All in all good, informative...a lot to learn,so not always easy.

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