Higher Courage

Uncertainty about the outcome or consequences, uncertainty about the environment, uncertainty about whether you will be able to garner the support you need, uncertainty about the the response of others. However, our mind usually responds with fear. These uncertainties give rise to fear of failure, fear of loss, fear of rejection, fear of looking foolish, fear of being alone. Stephen King, best selling author, who is a master when it comes to playing with fear writes:.

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Courage is the secret sauce that allows you to act despite your fears. Courage gives you the ability to put aside your fear of failure and take the first steps. Courage helps you overcome the fear of rejection and engage your stakeholders. Courage allows you to attempt things that you have not tried before, despite your fear of looking foolish. Confidence is an outcome.

It is the result of the constant practice that allows you to hone your skills. It is the benefit of becoming very familiar with your process, product, stakeholders through long and consistent engagement. It is the dividend of encountering the unexpected and dealing successfully with it over and over again. When we think of confidence, we are looking for proof that we will succeed, that our idea will work, that we will get the outcome we seek. That is overconfidence or false bravado. True confidence can only come with time, not a priori.

It does help to be optimistic, and you can certainly derive comfort from your track record. Your history of successfully completing projects or tasks, acquiring new skills and maintaining your motivation and commitment can help. However, it is unrealistic to feel confident about a new task or project or skill. As you become more skilled, as you see results, as you experience success, you become more confident and you need not invoke courage as much. Courage is the self-affirmation of being in spite of the fact of non-being.

It is the act of the individual self in taking the anxiety of non-being upon itself by affirming itself For religion is the state of being grasped by the power of being itself. Tolkien identified in his lecture " Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics " a " Northern 'theory of courage'" — the heroic or " virtuous pagan " insistence to do the right thing even in the face of certain defeat without promise of reward or salvation:. It is the strength of the northern mythological imagination that it faced this problem, put the monsters in the centre, gave them victory but no honor, and found a potent and terrible solution in naked will and courage.

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Virtuous pagan heroism or courage in this sense is "trusting in your own strength," as observed by Jacob Grimm in his Teutonic Mythology:. Men who, turning away in utter disgust and doubt from the heathen faith, placed their reliance on their own strength and virtue. Ernest Hemingway famously defined courage as "grace under pressure. Winston Churchill stated, "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all others. According to Maya Angelou , "Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. In Beyond Good and Evil , Friedrich Nietzsche describes master—slave morality , in which a noble man regards himself as a "determiner of values;" one who does not require approval, but passes judgment. Later, in the same text, he lists man's four virtues as "courage, insight, sympathy, and solitude," and goes on to emphasize the importance of courage: According to the Swiss psychologist Andreas Dick, courage consists of the following components: Researchers who want to study the concept and the emotion of courage have continued to come across a certain problem.

While there are "numerous definitions of courage" [46] , they are unable to set "an operational definition of courage on which to base sound explicit theories". Also, because courage is a "multi-dimensional construct, it can be "better understood as an exceptional response to specific external conditions or circumstances than as an attribute, disposition, or character trait".

From their research, they were able to find the "four necessary components of people's notion of courage". To further the discussion of the implicit theories of courage, the researchers stated that future research could consider looking into the concept of courage and fear and how individual's might feel fear, overcome it and act, and act despite of it. Its accompanying animal is the lion. It is sometimes seen in the Catholic Church as a depiction of Christ's triumph over sin.

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