How Courage Is a Skill and How It Can Be Developed

Courage is a mental skill. As such, as we know now, it can nurtured and developed – because we can act to change our minds through regular exercise. That is a fundamental discovery of the latest decades as we move into the Fourth Revolution mindset.

How you need to improve your courage (daily)! – as a metaphor?

As with all mental capabilities it is thus possible to train and develop our courage. Even if we start without having any. It just requires consciousness of the need and dedicated commitment to train.

There are two approaches to this training, which are complementary:

dealing progressively by exposing ourselves with more ever difficult situations (like weight training)
increasing our knowledge of the situation at hand to diminish the ignorance and lack of skill factor, which increases our fear.

I decidedly believe that exposing oneself to the object of our fear is a great way to train ourselves to overcome the stumbling blocks that we sometimes set ourselves on the way to achieve what we want. I might have a hard time sleeping for a few days before a first, like a speech in front of a large audience or before a CEO of a large company, but the most important is to go for it, willingly.

How do you go for it yourselves?

For more information on this topic, read a complete post by Steve Pavlina, an experienced coach.