Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
Published 2012 · 287 pages · 78,925 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Self-Help, Psychology, Nonfiction
How hard is Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead to read?
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead scores 20 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 22 out of 100
- Brown writes in plain, conversational English with a few coined terms such as 'foreboding joy' and 'shame resilience'. It sits near the accessible contemporary books like Atomic Habits and Beach Read.
- Sentence structure: 25 out of 100
- Sentences are short and direct, with lists and anecdotes breaking up the argument. The syntax is as easy as Beach Read's.
- Abstraction: 38 out of 100
- Concepts like shame, scarcity and vulnerability are tied to interview quotes and personal stories. Like Atomic Habits, it grounds ideas in concrete examples.
- Information density: 32 out of 100
- Research findings, definitions and stories come at a gentle pace with repetition for emphasis. It is lighter than Atomic Habits, with comfortable reading.
How Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead is regarded
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead holds a literary regard score of 37 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.