The number one New York Times bestseller with 1 million copies sold. From thought leader Dr. Brené Brown comes a transformative new vision for how we lead, love, work, parent, and educate, teaching us the power of vulnerability. "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Theodore Roosevelt. Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional vulnerability that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of groundbreaking research, Dr. Brené Brown debunks the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness.