This book called me out in so many different ways that I started getting a little too embarrassed. I felt personally attack a few times but I knew it was because the words applied to me like a mosquito. The mosquito being an unwelcome visitor, annoying, irritating, and leaving a horrible itch that lasts much too long, but of course all these things were in the form of words that I think I definitely needed to hear. Perhaps after reading this, its not so much the book acting as a mosquito, but in reality it's been my own intrusive thoughts pestering me, and this book shined a big old bug zapper on it. The sections that still stick to me talk about how vulnerability is sort of necessary throughout life and not at all a weakness, and all the different suits of armor Brown touched on as well as how to shed it. Applying the proper use and acceptance of vulnerability seems to be built into this whole TRAIN scholarship program. This class is full of other students a...
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