{"id":9724,"date":"2019-09-11T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T00:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9724"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:49:04","slug":"where-does-our-courage-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/11\/where-does-our-courage-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does our courage come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-02.jpg\" alt=\"Where does our courage come from?\" class=\"wp-image-9718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-02.jpg 496w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-02-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AW09112019-02-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><figcaption>Where does our courage come from?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand where courage comes from, we must understand why we need it. In <em>The Tragedy of Pudd&#8217;nHead Wilson&#8230; (PS1317 .A1 1996)<\/em> Mark Twain wrote &#8220;Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear &#8211; not absence of fear.&#8221; In his sci-fi epic <em>Dune<\/em> (PS3558.E63 D8) Frank Herbert wrote, &#8220;Fear is the mind-killer&#8230;&#8221;. Fear can paralyze us into inaction, which is, itself, an action. Doing nothing is a decision. Courage comes from an instinctual unwillingness to do nothing when something needs to be done. Brene Brown has written some great books on courage and where it comes from (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-brene-brown\">bit.ly\/BC-brene-brown<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To understand where courage comes from, we must understand why we need it. In The Tragedy of Pudd&#8217;nHead Wilson&#8230; (PS1317 .A1 1996) Mark Twain wrote &#8220;Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear &#8211; not absence of fear.&#8221; In his sci-fi epic Dune (PS3558.E63 D8) Frank Herbert wrote, &#8220;Fear is the mind-killer&#8230;&#8221;. Fear can paralyze &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/09\/11\/where-does-our-courage-come-from\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where does our courage come from?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[748],"class_list":["post-9724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","tag-courage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9743,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9724\/revisions\/9743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}