“Probably the most important characteristic [of vulnerable individuals] is openness to experiences in which outcomes cannot be known in advance,” Stolorow said. Vulnerable people acknowledge that life is full of ups and downs, and there’s nothing they can do to change that, Stolorow said. In a 2010 TED Talk on vulnerability, researcher and speaker Brené Brown explained how being vulnerable also means accepting all of your emotions. And then, we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. “To be human is to be excruciatingly vulnerable,” Stolorow said.

Source: Huffington Post January 16, 2017 14:40 UTC