My Favorite Definition of "Love" | Simon Sinek

4 Nov 2020 · 1 min

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Simon Sinek argues that modern culture overemphasizes rugged individualism and performative social-media displays, mistaking public broadcasting for vulnerability. He defines true vulnerability as interpersonal — "giving someone the power to destroy you and trusting they won't use it" — and contrasts that with posting sadness online.

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None of us is strong enough or smart enough to do this thing called life by ourselves. None of us. And I think we forget that. And especially in this day and age where I think we've overemphasized rugged individualism as a society, I think we've overemphasized putting on a happy face every day. You know, we have a. Especially the younger generation, but we have a time where we're all incredibly good at curating our lives and putting on social media just how great everything is. Or we've misunderstood that. Being vulnerable does not mean turning on a. You know, turning on your phone and making a sort of a confessional to no one to the room and then posting it online. That's not vulnerability. Simply saying you're sad and then posting it online, that's just broadcasting. True vulnerability.
Is interpersonal.
It's much, much scarier to actually tell someone. It goes to my favorite definition of love. My favorite definition of love is giving someone the power to destroy you and trusting they won't use it. That's vulnerability.