Daring Greatly

In case you're wondering, I'm the one person on God's green earth who has not yet seen Brené Brown’s TEDx talk.

That said, last night I stumbled across a documentary in which she reveals, among other things, the inspiration for her first book, Daring Greatly.

Spoken during a speech in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt urged the crowd gathered before him to focus their energies not on the naysayers and critics, but on the bravery it takes to get in the game.

All hail to those who, "at the worst ... at least fails while daring greatly."

“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 them 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 (1858 - 1919)