Background
Rising Strong was published in 2015. To quote Dr. Brown’s website:
The physics of vulnerability is simple: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending. Struggle can be our greatest call to courage and and the clearest path to a wholehearted life.
https://brenebrown.com/articles/2015/04/09/i-love-big-book-news-and-i-cannot-lie/
My Thoughts
I thought I would like this book a lot more than I did. The biggest reason was I had just read “Dare to Lead” and had already heard a number of her thoughts and anecdotes. They were just all a little too fresh so all I really heard was how irritating I find her. I can’t quite put my finger on why. She has really good messages and don’t have a lot against what she is saying. Maybe it’s just how she says it…
There is a certain amount of “truthiness” to a lot of what she is saying. That part I enjoy.
Whenever she talks about “the data” and how she researches and so on doesn’t feel right. Normally when a researcher talks about “the data” they are explicit in what data. Where did it come from? How was it gathered? How many participants were there and so on. My automatic BS flag gets thrown every time someone starts talking and doesn’t have much to back it up. That flag was thrown quite a few times in this book.
Recommendation
Still a good book. However, don’t read them one after the other. The reuse of the same stories seems to cheapen the message.