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The Woman in the Arena

I think most of us have heard some incarnation of the Brene Brown Daring Greatly talk by now.  For me, it was a Facebook post that lead to a podcast interview, that led to the Netflix special and it, as for many, resonated with me. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, social researcher Brene Brown has a new book out about risk based largely upon the following Theodore Roosevelt quote:   It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at t
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