The Gifts of Imperfection
A deep book about Courage, Compassion and Connection; these are decisions (mind sets) to lead our way to being wholehearted, to loving ourselves and others. We can not give what we do not have. Real authenticity and love come from within. The journey requires us to get deliberate through deep meditation and prayer, get inspired to make new and different choses in our lives and finally to get going, take action and make each day a new beginning.
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Researcher Brene Brown distills a decade of interviews on shame and connection into ten guideposts for what she calls Wholehearted Living, from cultivating self-compassion to letting go of perfectionism and certainty.
The Gifts of Imperfection is Brene Brown's 2010 framework for wholehearted living, drawn from her shame and vulnerability research. The ten guideposts include cultivating authenticity, self-compassion, and creativity over comparison and exhaustion as status.
Reading The Gifts of Imperfection (2010) first builds the framework, but Daring Greatly (2012) and Rising Strong (2015) can be read in any order. Each addresses related themes from a different angle.
The Gifts of Imperfection was written by Brené Brown, published in 2010 by Hazelden.
The Gifts of Imperfection is 202 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Gifts of Imperfection takes most readers 3 to 4 hours to finish.
The Gifts of Imperfection is a standalone novel by Brené Brown, not part of a series.
The Gifts of Imperfection is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
