Quotes about Vulnerability

It was astounding how much more comfortable I felt just being honest. So I kept going.

It's not that they go out of their way to tick off their clients. It's just that they're so focused on saying and doing whatever is in the best interests of those clients that they stop worrying about the repercussions. They make themselves completely vulnerable, or naked, and don't try to protect themselves.

It's not that they go out of their way to tick off their clients. It's just that they're so focused on saying and doing whatever is in the best interests of those clients that they stop worrying about the repercussions. They make themselves completely vulnerable, or naked, and don't try to protect themselves.

It's all about standing there naked in front of the client. It's about building trust. And in the end, that means the client trusts them and takes care of them.

At its core, naked service boils down to the ability of a service provider to be vulnerable—to embrace uncommon levels of humility, selflessness, and transparency for the good of a client.

Trust] requires team members to make themselves vulnerable to one another, and be confident that their respective vulnerabilities will not be used against them.

Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Rather than avoiding a feeling, your goal should be to move toward the emotion, into it, and eventually through it.

identify one particular insight from their profile that they feel highlights a weakness that they would like to address for the good of the team.

KEY POINTS—BUILDING TRUST • Trust is the foundation of teamwork. • On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people. • Building trust takes time, but the process can be greatly accelerated. • Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

When it comes to teams, trust is all about vulnerability. Team members who trust one another learn to be comfortable being open, even exposed, to one another around their failures, weaknesses, even fears.

Partly because teenagers are still half children, and many children are just intrinsically cruel.