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Brene Brown – Rising Strong

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August 28, 2015 by ES Ivy Leave a Comment

Brene Brown - Rising StrongLast night I got to see Brene Brown when she spoke in Austin to promote her book Rising Strong!

Update! 9/11/2017 Brene Brown

Brene Brown has a new book coming out tomorrow! You can order of Braving the Wilderness from Amazon!Brene Brown - Braving the Wilderness

Brene Brown’s talk – Rising Strong

Her talk was organized by our amazing local independent bookstore, Book People. The event was sold out!

Brene Brown - Rising Strong

Even so, Brene managed to make the talk so personal. She embodies the ability to Embrace the Gifts of Imperfection as she practices Daring Greatly in what she is willing to reveal to a wide audience.

Brene Brown - Rising Strong talk

Through her willingness to be vulnerable, we all learn.

About Rising Strong

From the publisher: Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy. But living a brave life is not always easy: We are, inevitably, going to stumble and fall.

It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong. As a grounded theory researcher, Brown has listened as a range of people—from leaders in Fortune 500 companies and the military to artists, couples in long-term relationships, teachers, and parents—shared their stories of being brave, falling, and getting back up. She asked herself, What do these people with strong and loving relationships, leaders nurturing creativity, artists pushing innovation, and clergy walking with people through faith and mystery have in common? The answer was clear: They recognize the power of emotion and they’re not afraid to lean in to discomfort.

Walking into our stories of hurt can feel dangerous. But the process of regaining our footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged. Our stories of struggle can be big ones, like the loss of a job or the end of a relationship, or smaller ones, like a conflict with a friend or colleague. Regardless of magnitude or circumstance, the rising strong process is the same: We reckon with our emotions and get curious about what we’re feeling; we rumble with our stories until we get to a place of truth; and we live this process, every day, until it becomes a practice and creates nothing short of a revolution in our lives. Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness. It’s the process, Brown writes, that teaches us the most about who we are.

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Up Series – success and satisfaction in life

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March 30, 2015 by ES Ivy 2 Comments

Up Series DVDAlong with my current reading list, I also mentioned that I’ve been watching the Up Series documentaries. The Up documentaries have been a continuing project over the last fifty years, following the lives of 14 children. It was actually Tim who first found this series, and realized that it might have connections to everything I’d been reading about.

The series begins with a short film, 7 Up, that was actually meant to be a stand alone documentary showing how a child’s future in Britain was already limited by the age they were 7, simply by the class they were born into. (And yes, I realize I used “they” where I should have used “he,” but I really dislike using only the masculine form in such cases, and he/she is so awkward.) In this first film, it’s rather striking to see how the more affluent children have a pretty good idea of how their life will be charted out, rattling off a long stream of schools they plan to progress through….

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Books for thought on Education and Purpose

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March 26, 2015 by ES Ivy Leave a Comment

We took our kids – with our main focus being our son, who’s a high school junior – to visit two private universities in our state over spring break. While our son is very focused on a major in computer science, I took our daughters to see the fine arts department at one school, and visited with women who are a professor of interior design, a biochemist, and a chemical engineer/turned industrial engineer/turned computer science lecturer/women in engineering adviser, at another.

Meanwhile I’ve been reading, a lot….

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Resilience and Optimism in new Movies

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March 25, 2015 by ES Ivy Leave a Comment

Cinderella Movie Glass shoe posterOver on the Mom Behind the Curtain, I’ve got a new post the Disney Cinderella movie, and now it relates to what I read in Mindset, by Carol Dwek. The ability to remain optimistic is important to develop if we don’t possess it naturally. Disney/Pixar has a new movie coming out this summer, Inside Out, that looks like it might provide some insight into this process. You can read my full post about lessons in optimism and resilience from Cinderella and Inside Out on The Mom Behind the Curtain. [link]

Media from Walt Disney Studios. I was not compensated for these movie reviews and bought the movie tickets myself. All thoughts and comments are my own.

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Success factors 10: Teen stress and anxiety, are ambitious high school schedules leading to success?

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June 25, 2014 by ES Ivy 2 Comments

School used to be so easy. Take the hardest classes possible. Do your best. Success will follow.

But have high schools (and the college boards who wrote up the advanced placement curriculum) succeeded in making advanced placement classes so challenging that a student can’t do it all? Or are they just leading to teen stress and anxiety with little to no affect on life-long success?…

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Filed Under: Education, Homework, Success Tagged With: AP, high school

Success factors 7: High school advice, does high school stress lead to success?

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May 21, 2014 by ES Ivy Leave a Comment

For lots of reasons that I went over in some of my previous posts, we started questioning if our kid should be taking a full load of AP classes starting with this first post. We were wondering if a success factor in high school was taking a full AP load. So I continued asking more questions about AP classes and class rank at our school. Here are some of the things I learned.

Like a lot of schools, our students have essentially two GPAs.

The first is a straight GPA. Just an average of all your grades in all your classes.

Then they have another adjusted GPA that is used for their class rank, and they get extra points for preAP and AP classes. This means that even if you make a lower grade in a preAP or AP class, the grade used to compute you average is likely to be higher than you could possibly get in a ‘regular’ class. This makes sense, since it seems to avoid penalizing kids for taking harder classes. We’ll call their adjusted GPA, using this extra bump for harder classes, their class rank average.…

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Success factors 1: What’s the Best Way to Guide Your Child Through High School to be a Success in College and in Life?

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April 9, 2014 by ES Ivy 8 Comments

What is the best way to guide your child through high school to be a success in college and in life? What are the success factors you need to instill in your kid?

I don’t know.

If that’s not the best way to get you to quit reading right now, I don’t know what is. But I’ll follow that by saying that these posts are about my looking for the best way to guide my kids through high school. And as with anything I do, I always research it. Thoroughly….

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Filed Under: College, Education, Homework, Success Tagged With: homework

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