Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t take the commonly accepted beliefs others have. He looks deeper into understanding the Why’s and How’s of things at a deeper level. Success isn’t just a matter of hard work, or talent, or both. There are a lot of assumptions about success, and in his book Outliers, Gladwell works to dispel many [...]
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I don’t consider myself to be a motivational speaker. I consider myself to be more of a skeptic. Not a cynic, or a pessimist, but a skeptic. I talk a lot about the issues of happiness and yet oddly, not an optimist. In spite of the [...]
I previously posted about what we typically learn to think of as courage. In that post I shared how my previous understanding of courage fell apart. The awareness and insight that I got from a Marine Corp Staff Sergeant helped me understand that what we often associate with heroic acts could just as [...]
What is courage?
This definition of courage is as good as any other.
“Courage is a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear.”
Then there is the more profound understanding that you can be afraid and still have courage. Mark Twain said, “Courage is not the absence of fear. It [...]