“Your vulnerability can be a gift to others. How badass is that?” – Brittin Oakman
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“A woman who opens her heart to love you when it’s already broken is braver
than any person you’ll meet.” – Steven Benson
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“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot
trust, neither can we find love or joy.” – Walter Anderson
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“I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.”
– Alanis Morissette
Who wants to be more vulnerable… besides me?
What if being more vulnerable meant… paradoxically… being less vulnerable?
How could that possibly be?
Irrational, nonsensical, etc., or just maybe…absolutely brilliant!
Until you reach the 9.x Level (scale of 0.0 to 10.0) in any core competency or holistically… almost all your decisions are produced using a rational process, using your Decision Making Quality (DMQ). Then, when you enter into the rare 9.x level… everything becomes paradoxical… including the concept of vulnerability!
When you become intelligently vulnerable, the doors of knowledge burst open and a tidal wave of answers are provided to you. With that being said, just understand, you may not like the answers, but at least you will now begin getting, for the first time, the most honest answers.
The fascinating part, because you are now so vulnerable, operate in a mode of honest integrity and don’t refrain from expressing your raw beliefs… you brilliantly:
- Reduce or eliminate your Would-Be-Regrets!
- Eliminate the need to continually “what if” yourself!
- Enable yourself to recover from situations that don’t go well, much, much more easily! (Thus; you paradoxically, become far less vulnerable and capable of recovering immediately!)
Personally: We see romantic, parent-child, etc., relationships routinely deteriorate due to a lack of one or both parties being vulnerable enough to actually make the decisions and take the actions necessary to support their genuine, vulnerable positions.
Professionally: We see business relationships routinely deteriorate due to a lack of all parties being vulnerable enough to actually make decisions and then put themselves into their true, vulnerable positions.
I’ve had some amazing “teachers” in life on this complex topic and now leverage this paradoxical knowledge to understand other people’s true intentions. In failing miserably, during my first real 9.x lesson from an Unorthodoxly-Amazing person, it totally changed my life and understanding of vulnerability.
Life’s short! Go first… embrace being naked with your thoughts…
open your sternum and expose your heart and soul!
Scary? Only if you’re a sub-9.x’er!
In practicing Optimal-Vulnerability, you’ll be able to say, do, etc., anything!
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This position of vulnerability, is paradoxically, a position of power… since
you now know what you want, can ask for it and actually get a bluntly-honest
answers, based on other people’s decisions and actions (not their words).
Life’s short… use your Paradoxical, Optimal-Vulnerability intelligently
to get all the honest answers you want.
Warning: If you’re not ready for honest answers…
you’re not a 9.x’er! Keep growing!
Are you a leader who’s vulnerable enough to collaborate with our team, and let us save your company $ Millions?
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Get MAD! Get Making A Difference! ~ JR
