Redefining Courage: It’s More Than Just Fear!

The first exercise I tried to look at when I was writing Return on courage was the definition of courage. So the existing definition is the ability to do something that frightens you. And I struggled with that. I struggled with that for a number of reasons. First, who the hell am I to question the dictionary? I went to didn't go to an Ivy League school, you know, so, like, I. I question who, you know, am I the right person to challenge the dictionary? My last name's not Webster. But then I was like, well, where's the utility in this definition? Like, and who wants to do frightening things at work? So I was just trying to come up with a better definition of courage. And where I landed, and this is after, like, two years of talking to, you know, people that are brave, that are bullish, and that are brainiacs. And where I landed was three levers. There's knowledge, there's faith, and there's action.