This YouTube motivational talk explains where courage comes from and offers a "courage checklist" to help listeners identify why they avoid change. The speaker identifies three core fears—loss pain, process pain, and outcome pain—illustrating them with dieting and business examples, then prompts listeners to complete reflection sentences about avoided changes and to imagine how life would improve after taking action.
All right, so let's go through the courage checklist. We're not going to have time to finish this, but you should take time to go through this. This is the kind of stuff that the general public does not carve out time in their day to do stuff like this. And I promise you, I wouldn't put this in front of you if I didn't think it was game changer type stuff. Okay? So take time to go through this material and take this seriously. So where does courage come from? How do we start to gain more confidence and courage in our lives? The answers lie not only in moments of crisis, but in how we live each day of our lives. Consider the concepts below and respond to the questions. So first, it's an awareness of what we fear outside of fears for physical health and dangerous situation. What we most often fear are three things. First, we fear loss pain so that by changing or advancing in our lives, we will lose something important to us. Second, we fear. Good example of loss pain is like going on a diet, right? The fear of losing food, right? If food is your sort of go to thing that's lost pain. Second, we fear process pain that the mere act or process of changing will be too hard for us. Diet and exercise, you know, say you have 50 pounds to lose, you can use the same example. The process of changing and focusing on your health and your weight will be too hard for us. Third, we fear outcome pain that all the effort we put into changing may not lead to a better outcome in our lives. That's probably pushing a business to a next level, right? So that's a good example of that. You're not really sure that this is going to work. Yeah, it worked for Lars and it's working for some other people, but maybe it's not going to work for me. So outcome pain that by all the effort we put into changing may not lead to a better outcome in our lives, that the grass might not be greener. Okay? So think of a change you have avoided making or dream you have not moved towards. And complete the sentences below for greater insight. I haven't changed or chased my dreams with more courage and commitment because I'm afraid I might lose. I haven't changed or chased my dreams with more courage and commitment because I'm afraid the process might bring on these hardships in my life. I haven't changed or chased my dreams with more courage and commitment because I'm afraid that despite all the effort, the outcome might not be so good and I could end up when I overcome all my fears and have the courage to take action and improve. My life will be different in this way. So what if you do take action and chase your dream with more courage and commitment? What will happen? How will your life be different?
