Courage: Training Our Brains to Risk Something New

Guest post by Linda Graham

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure thing–taking. — Tim McMahon

Whenever we’re about to venture into something new — moving across the country, getting married again, taking on a new job, finally fixing the leaky showerhead — we can feel a hesitancy, a pullback within — a somatic feeling of “Uh oh! Strange territory! Don’t know if I should be doing this!” — even though, consciously, we might very well want to forge ahead. O...