“Can’t lose if you don’t choose? Of course you can. When you don’t decide, you still have made a choice. “My religion’s more important than fighting,” Ali told him. The promoter of Muhammad Ali’s first title fight tried to get the young athlete to disavow his Muslim faith on threat of canceling the match.
The opposite of courage is not fear, but apathy, despair, nilhism. Two types of questions people ask themselves: “What is going to happen to me?” Or “What action am I going to take?” It’s a cognitive cost taking us away from that actual task at hand.ĭon’t question another person’s fear or courage, because we have our own to question. But they are the flavoring that makes victory taste so sweet.Įmbrace hardships because “Plenty and peace breeds cowards,” Shakespeare said. We must prepare for the unexpected because the unexpected blows land most heavily and painfully. Grant thought there were twenty wolves when there were just two. It’s an illusion they want you to believe. The obstacles, the enemies, the critics - they are not as numerous as you think. There has never been a person who did something that matter without pissing people off. For fear is = “False Evidence Appearing Real”. What do you think thunder is, he said, but the clouds doing the same thing? We must use logic in facing fear. But don’t be afraid.” The most repeated phrase in the Bible also happens to be “Be not afraid.”ĭuring a time when people had no idea what thunder was or what caused it, to help his men overcome the fear, Pericles grabbed two large rocks and began to smash the rocks together. And when told that something could not be done, she replied with quiet authority, “But it must be done.” The Heroic: When we are called to do something for someone other than ourselvesįlorence Nightingale rejected her inner calling to stand up for herself, go against the social norms, and to make a difference in the world, for sixteen years! When she did answer, she faced incredible opposition. The book is broken down into three sectionsĬourage: The different examples of bravery The added notes below the main points are my practical takeaways. This summary includes key lessons and important passages from the book. My notes are informal and often contain quotes from the book as well as my own thoughts. This is my book summary of Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave by Ryan Holiday. The chapters are very short (couple of pages at most) and this is a book that can be read and reread throughout one’s entire lifetime - it’s a great reminder for those forgetting how to act and live a fulfilling life. Main Synopsis of the book: This is a book on courage, one of the four cardinal virtues of Stoic Philosophy, and Ryan Holiday dissects every dimension of that word using vivid examples from ancient Spartans, the Civil Rights Movement, Ulysses S.
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