What Are Your Values? | Brené Brown and Adam Grant are BACK on A Bit of Optimism #Podcast

28 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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Excerpt from a podcast conversation (Brené Brown, Simon Sinek, Adam Grant) exploring emotional reactions when one believes they are being lied to and how such experiences reveal threatened personal values. The speakers discuss emotions like grief, confusion, and anger and link anger to perceived threats to core values.

When you feel like you're being lied to, how would you name the emotion when you think that's happening?
It's the sense that I've lost my teammate alone. Is the feeling.
Is it grief?
It's closer to confusion.
The one way I would experience you, Simon, you really do move through the world with a very generous assumption about people. And I wonder if people are shitty like that for no reason.
Like it shakes your worldview.
Yeah.
Your primal worldview is that, you know, people are decent and kind to each other. Like, how. How dare you not operate by that? Yeah. There's an exercise I do in class where I have students analyze what are the common patterns behind situations where they got angry? Consistently. What comes out is that their values are under threat. Okay, well, what are the values that have been threatened?
This is so good. When was the last time you got angry? Then I'll show you what your values are.
Exactly.