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Courage Is A Habit: Practice It Daily Until It Becomes The Norm
Your lack of courage may cost you
Our brains are wired to:
- Discount the cost of inaction,
- Overestimate the probability of things going wrong and
- Underestimate ourselves.
However, researchers have found that bravery is a skill, and like all skills it can be learned, strengthened and mastered with repeated practice.
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Your lack of courage may cost you
Our brains are wired to:
- Discount the cost of inaction,
- Overestimate the probability of things going wrong and
- Underestimate ourselves.
However, researchers have found that bravery is a skill, and like all skills it can be learned, strengthened and mastered with repeated practice.
Three big obstacles
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- Appreciating why stepping outside their comfort zone is so important to begin with (i.e. No clear or compelling why).
- Setting the intention to consciously and consistently practice acts of courage.
- Knowing which acts of courage to start with – after all, being brave isn’t always predictable or straight forward.
Bravery habits
- Speaking Up: Every act of courage is about laying something you value on the line for something you value even more. Speaking bravely takes no less.
- Making Big Requests: If you don’t ask, the answer will always be no.
- Confronting Long Held Fears: Most people suffer more from their imagination than they ever do
from reality.
Courage is like a muscle
The more we use it, the more courageous we become.
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Benefits of a daily writing habit
- Better self-discipline
- Improving persuasion skills
- Cultivating self-awareness
- Better decision making
- Seeing the power of compounding in action
Writing as self-discipline
The reason why we don’t do anything useful with our time is that we lack self-discipline. But when you write every day, you strengthen your discipline. And you can transfer that better self-discipline to achieve anything in life.
Writing cultivates self-awareness
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Manipulate your thoughts
It doesn’t work to say to yourself, “I have to stop being afraid.”
- If you notice yourself having a thought that undermines your attempts at bravery, simply label it as such
Consider that your fear isn’t legitimate
Legitimate fear tends to make us want to get the heck out of whatever situation we are in.
Not-helpful fear makes us hesitate rather than bolt.
We are afraid of looking stupid, and so we don’t ask a burning question. We fear failing, and so we don’t even try.
The "If X, Then Y” plan
- IF my team grumbles or pushes-back because I’m not working on the weekends anymore,
- THEN I will forward them Leslie Perlow’s Harvard Business Review article about how ‘Predictable Time Off’ improves both work quality
- AND quality of life, even in client-oriented businesses.
Fear is the thing that in truth makes actions hard, not the action that we think we are afraid of.
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Forming good habits
Habits are little chunks of auto-pilot behavior that get burned permanently into your mind. Once you develop a habit, you can never really delete it.
Habits start with a trigger, which se...
Find the trigger point of your habit
Describe your own behavior in detail, and search for clues you might have missed before. Find your trigger.
If you have a habit of making coffee, it might be triggered by entering the kitchen. Some people eat in response to boredom or buy stuff in response to their desires.
Trick yourself
Take an existing cue you have, but trick yourself into triggering a different behavior.
If you want to quit coffee, you could give away the coffee machine and put a box of tea or a glass of water on the countertop.
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