Relational
What if a partnership is never 50/50?
Brown and her husband Steve had been together 32 years when she told Tim Ferriss about the hacks she thinks saved their marriage. One of them starts by throwing out a rule most couples never question.
When you both just have 20, you have a plan where you don't hurt each other.— Brené Brown, The Tim Ferriss Show, 2020
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The thinker
Vulnerability & Shame Researcher
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston who has spent over two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.
Based on The Tim Ferriss Show #409: Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (2020), summarised and reframed by Insights.
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