The Ingredients of Courage

Courage is the courage to create new things, or new symbols for people to rally around. A social scientist that i talked to had studied courage and interviewed people who saw other people acting in a way like standing up against something going wrong. And she noticed that it doesn't matter if if you see your act as courageous. Just its happening in the space between us creates courage for the people who witness it. There were three key ideas that created more courage within a person, or among people. It was that first word, of true self. People were connected to something essential inside their heart that allowed them to show up. The second was trust. And it was a development of trust in themselves