Vulnerability is, at its core, the possibility to change…

Vulnerability is, at its core, the possibility to change and be af-fected. The vulnerable person experiences pain and suffers, and this means he or she is receptive. In that sense, vulnerability is also the core structure of being able to receive or perceive emotions.

— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy) · Narrative Brain: the Stories Our Neurons Tell by Fritz Breithaupt

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Vulnerability. I will say something that took me decades to believe: vulnerability is not weakness. It is, at its very core, the structure that lets you receive emotion at all — to be affectable, changeable, still in flux rather than frozen into a final shape. I watched it in business for fifty years: the leaders with the courage to show genuine vulnerability and empathy were the ones who inspired loyalty. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

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