Donna C.

“I am a mapmaker and a traveler.” It’s my way of telling you that I don’t have the answers. I have data, and I use that data to chart a course that I’m sharing with you and trying to navigate at the same time.”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“Clutch required choosing; flow required experiencing. Two different states. Both bringing about top performance. One requires grit, the other grace. One accepting, the other a conscious decision. In many ways, the clutch-versus-flow paradigm reflects toughness. We tend to think of it as a singular method: push through, persist. But as we’ve come to realize, that’s a false constriction. Being tough means being able to choose the right strategy, given your abilities and the situation.”
― Steve Magness, Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

“Hubris is an inflated sense of one’s own innate abilities that is tied more to the need for dominance than to actual accomplishments. It”
― Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“Your comfort zone isn't nourishing you anymore. What are you going to do about this?”
― Robin S. Baker