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How Can I Be Vulnerable Without Being Needy Or Whiny?

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How to Practice Being More Vulnerable?

Tucker: I think vulnerability is a really difficult misleading word that most young men systematically misunderstand and that leads them down the wrong path. The key is emotionally open, not hiding your personality or your quirks behind some facade of alpha male perfection. If you've got a bunch of terrible people around you, it's hard for you to be vulnerable because you don't want to trust someone. In fact, if I were you, I would do this book for Joe in the Helping Joe series called Daring Greatly by Dr. Bernay Brown. She's done a ton of empirical work on vulnerability and social isolation and all sorts of things but it's very applicable to your life.

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