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Takeaways from interview with Pippa Grange

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Here are a few takeaways from the8 Interview with Pippa Grange, on the Dare to Lead podcast by Brenè Brown :
1. We need to learn to surrender to the journey to truly enjoy it, instead of learning to control it.
2. Two fears are highlighted in our lives: fear of death and fear of abandonment: which is translated as fear of rejection and not being good enough. 
3. Instead of human beings performing, we have become performative which means that we don't know how to not perform. The nagging pressure to perform takes away from who we are. It produces anxiety as our lives are commodified. 
4. Fear of not being good enough has its upsides: it may drive you and keep you focused but its down sides are quite significant: the anxiety it produces makes us lose our mindfulness, conviction and courage. Its a lazy tool for motivation.
5. Failure is hard to get over when our performance is tied with our self-worth. Your results are just an outcome, they are not who you are. 
6. Shallow win: A drive for success to prove you're good enough, to beat others and to be accepted. 
When we succeed this way, we never enjoy our success but move on to the next thing. It highlights the mindset of scarcity, self-doubt and urgency.
Deep win: 
It is when we feel the richness of our journey and struggles. Our action are more soulful.
7. We don't need to achieve as much as we need to feel our achievements.
8. When our work becomes egoistic, we lose joy in learning. We move away from learning and experimentation to covering up our mistakes and putting up a facade. It pushes us to manage our impressions based on what other people think of us, and drives us away from authenticity. This makes us lose our curiosity and puts us in a vigilant state.
9. We don't have to choose between soulfulness, love and winning. But to get there, the bridge we have to cross is vulnerability.
10. A surrender that's useful against fear: letting go of control. When we are afraid of letting go of control, it is when our ego is involved and our self-worth is tied to the outcome.
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