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Everything You Learned About Courage Is Wrong
Sorry…It doesn’t exist
Some say you’re either born with it or you’re not. Guru’s like to speak of courage like it’s a thing they can teach you or give you.
Courage is not a device or magical power implanted in lucky individuals at birth. It’s nothing more than an invented word we use to describe when someone acts in spite of fear.
All of us have this ability.
One factor determines whether you spring you into action in the face of fear. You can boil it down to an equation and a set of questions.
What are your go-to fears?
Fear can be real, exaggerated, or imagined. In the modern world, in a civilized society, most of our worries are imagined or exaggerated.
These fears have the most significant impact on us in today’s world.
Fear of embarrassment or shame
Fear of poverty
Fear of social stigma
Fear of rejection
Fear of loneliness
To a lesser degree, we face the primal fear of bodily harm.
Why do petty things scare us?
I published my first blog post almost three years ago. It terrified me, but I accessed my reservoir of courage and did it.
