Rising strong
"The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall. The author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Daring Greatly and The Gifts of Imperfection tells us what it takes to get back up, and how owning our stories of disappointment, failure, and heartbreak gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle, Brene Brown writes, can be our greatest call to courage, and rising strong our clearest path to a wholehearted life"-- "With her 2010 TED talk on the power of vulnerability (over 18 million views), her bestselling books on the transformative gifts of shame and vulnerability, and her inspiring call for wholehearted living, Brene Brown has changed the cultural conversation. Her work has been embraced by Oprah Winfrey and corporate leaders alike making her a highly sought after public speaker. For Brene, the conversation about vulnerability and shame naturally evolves into a discussion of bravery--its origins, its catalysts, its chemistry. How we are brave. What constitutes bravery. What activates the impulse to be brave. And how to recognize where our own "hero's journey" begins--in the depths of failure, disappointment, heartbreak, and grief--and how, once we grapple with our story, we are able to rise from those depths and determine how we want our story will end"
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- You've pretty much got it bang on. I suspect the author of the article is referencing this concept from Brené Brown who has written a full book around it. It's definitely a great read if your interested I've found her writing style flows really nicely.
She does relate some concepts to her other books though so you may end up getting 3 books by the end of it :)
https://www.amazon.ca/Rising-Strong-Ability-Transforms-Paren...
- If you struggle to get diverse voices inside your field, maybe you should read from diverse voices outside your field. I understand it is hard and I also gravitate towards comfortable reading, usually meaning from people that look like me. This is the problem. Start being accountable to yourself about it.
2 of 19 the books in the list are by female authors (both recommended by women). Looking for some good books from women? Check out these:
Nonfiction:
* Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach
* The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
* Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis
* Rising Strong, Brené Brown
* Cleopatra, Stacy Shiff
* The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
Fiction:
* Anything by Ursula Le Guin
* Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
* Too Like the Lightning, Ada Palmer
* Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine
... so many more
- Brene Brown talks about this a fair bit in her work. I apologize for not remembering which specific book of hers I read that touches on this; there's apparently a new one (which I haven't read yet) that covers the topic specifically.
If you're curious, check out her two TED talks (in order): "the power of vulnerability" and "the power of shame". I'm pretty sure the second one talks a bit about resilience, and the first one sets up some context.
Her books are generally quite excellent as well, and I'll definitely be picking up a copy of Rising Strong to once again complete the library
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
It teaches you how to get back up after failure, how to be in the arena, doing the work and not backing down when the critics tries to shame you.
Her research on shame in her earlier books and especially on the subject of "doing the best you can" in this book has helped me a lot.
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology (great!)
Dare to Lead (interesting and Powerful)
Rising Strong (Sensible)
What the most successful people do before breakfast (helpful in thinking about opportunity costs)
Why we sleep (interesting read)
Exponential organisations (Re-read after 2 years, worth it)
Prisoners of Geography (very interesting view of geopolitics, Putin, et al)
Continuous Delivery (great!)
Clean Code (must read for any serious programmer)
Built to last (picked it back after 1-2 years, cool book)
Site Reliability Engineering (didn't quite finish, but good book)
Building Microservices (fantastic book which puts everything I've done in the past year into so much more perspective)
