Vulnerability means uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. True courage is feeling that fear and acting anyway. The tension is between our instinct for safety and the need to push past comfort zones to reach your potential.
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I think it is vulnerability. Vulnerability is scary. Like, the definition of vulnerability is the presence of uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure, right? And I think to be courageous is to feel that vulnerability and do it anyway. Um, and I think that our experiences, our past experiences, have shown us what happens when we're vulnerable. Now, if we've been lucky enough and have had lots of great experiences where we've been vulnerable and it's worked for us, it hasn't cost us anything, then I can only imagine you would continue to be vulnerable, right? But as a human being, at the end of the day, we're designed to stay safe and to be secure. So I think we can't ignore our wiring. Like, that is, that is part of our wiring, which is great, right? Because we want to stay alive, we want to get to 80 and beyond. But for that to happen, we need to kind of manage that rub that constantly we have in our lives around, you know, how do I want to live my life while staying safe but also push myself and live out my potential.