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Posts tagged: courage

What if there is no bandwagon?

How do we behave in the face of uncertainty? Sometimes, we take the information we have (or what we think is information), and we form assumptions about what has already happened. Then, we jump on the bandwagon we thought we saw. It’s a way of rationalizing the statement, “I have no choice.” “If we speak […]

To learn to leap

Can great courage be built from little? As a small instance of courage—a “little courage”—I imagine inserting just a thin sliver of time between a stimulus and what comes next. This allows what was an immediate, habitual reaction to be replaced by a response, now mediated by the narrow wedge of a moment’s pause. Many times, our […]