daring greatly in your volvo (also, tickets on sale TOMORROW!)

interesting and somewhat painful/awkward Media Moment. it involves Cadillac and Brené Brown, who you may know from writing the fantastic forward to “the art of asking” but hopefully you’ve also read her powerful book on shame and vulnerability “Daring Greatly”. the quote was taken from a Teddy Roosevelt speech, and it’s a great one:

“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, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”