Movie Notes: Privacy and Vulnerability

1. The difference between empathy and sympathy, is that empathy drives a feeling of connection between two people, as opposed to sympathy, which drives a disconnection between two people.

2. "Silver lining it" actually means to try to make something better with a response, for example, if one person has trouble playing a sport, "silver lining it" would be like replying with, "at least you have something your interested in."

3. Writing about someone who is smarter than you is actually a lot simpler than it sounds. In order to do it efficiently you must offer the reader all the information needed to make deductions, or create solutions, and then have the smart character conclude in a completely different way that is nonetheless obvious and sensible. This creates a aura of unnatural knowledge and brains.

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5. In his speech, Glenn Greenwald, discussed Eric Shmidt of Google, Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, and the internet itself.

6. Privacy matters if you didn't do anything wrong because there are things, that everybody has, we don't want people to know, and we would be shameful, and mortify if others knew about it.

7. No, Brene Brown did not originally like being called a story-teller because it kind of pokes fun at her job.

8. If you can't measure it, it does not exist.

9. Courage, as opposed to bravery, is the ability to do something that is right or good even if it is frightening, while being brave is showing no fear in doing what we are doing.

10.  No, it is not possible to selectively numb feelings.