Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.
Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.
When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.
That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.
I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.