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The courage I lack is not the same courage you lack, but we are more confused about that courage than ever.
Here’s a breakdown of what courage is and is not. https://medium.com/@salomesibonex/the-courageous-animal-4-types-of-courage-you-need-b11a66cd141d
Here’s a breakdown of what courage is and is not. https://medium.com/@salomesibonex/the-courageous-animal-4-types-of-courage-you-need-b11a66cd141d
Our culture lost the rituals that once taught us what courage was and how to use it.
Today most are cowards, “denouncing” grandma’s politics as a brave stand.
It’s the opposite.
Today most are cowards, “denouncing” grandma’s politics as a brave stand.
It’s the opposite.
Existential psych Rollo May broke courage into 4 spheres: physical, moral, social, and creative.
To you, courage might be trusting a new relationship more than climbing a mountain.
To you, courage might be trusting a new relationship more than climbing a mountain.
Our culture is deeply fearful and insecure.
With no modern understanding of courage to match a modern world, we turn to cheap substitutes: authoritarianism, groupthink, violence.
With no modern understanding of courage to match a modern world, we turn to cheap substitutes: authoritarianism, groupthink, violence.
It’s our primal instinct to test our courage, but with no warriors or lions, we look for the nearest replica.
Fighting self-created enemies is a desperate attempt to cling to the ghost of traditional courage.
Fighting self-created enemies is a desperate attempt to cling to the ghost of traditional courage.
Courage is much harder than joining a virtual mob to insult people online.
Courage is rejecting the mob even if it means you become its next target.
Courage is rejecting the mob even if it means you become its next target.
Courage is rarely something expressed in a crowd. It’s no accident many deities have stories of leaving their homes to wander in isolation.
It takes courage to stand alone.
It takes courage to stand alone.
Find which courage you lack; maybe intimacy terrifies you or failure is unbearable.
What honor is gained from facing only what others fear? Don’t condemn the fear of others when you secretly hide from your own.
What honor is gained from facing only what others fear? Don’t condemn the fear of others when you secretly hide from your own.
This essay is a simple map to find the monster meant for you.
If you cringe at how quickly others crumble in the face of a threat, make sure your monster wouldn’t do the same to you. https://medium.com/@salomesibonex/the-courageous-animal-4-types-of-courage-you-need-b11a66cd141d
If you cringe at how quickly others crumble in the face of a threat, make sure your monster wouldn’t do the same to you. https://medium.com/@salomesibonex/the-courageous-animal-4-types-of-courage-you-need-b11a66cd141d
