Privacy and Vulnerability

1. Empathy drives a feeling of connection between two people while sympathy drives a feeling of disconnection.
2. By "silver lining it", Brene Brown means to try to make something seem better than it actually is with a response.
3. To write about a character who is smarter than you, you must offer the audience all the information needed to make deductions. Then, have the "smart" character conclude in a completely different way that is nonetheless reasonable. This creates an illusion of unnatural knowledge.
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5. In his speech, Glenn Greenwald discussed Eric Shmidt of Google, Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, and the Internet itself.
6. Privacy matters even if you did not do anything wrong, because everyone has things that they want to keep private, and would feel shamed if others knew.
7. No, Brene Brown did not originally like being called a story-teller because she felt that it lowered the status of her job.
8. If you can;t measure it, it does not exist.
9. Courage is the ability to do something that is right or good even if it is frightening, while being brave is showing no fear in doing what you are doing.
10. It is not possible to selectively numb feelings.