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Courage: The non-biological factors
Non-biological aspect such as our psychological makeup, values, and beliefs, along with conditioning by early role models, can compel us to act at risk to ourselves in the interest of protecting other people.
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From individual to context
Research links our capacity to act courageously (or the opposite) to measurable and controllable personal traits such as self-efficacy, self-esteem, the presence of anxiety, and the openness to experience. All these characteristics can be developed and shaped with practice and he...
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Learn courage through practice
- Create plots: imagine both the worst that could happen if you take a certain action and what the outcome would be if you didn’t act.
- Recognize the negativity bias: we are prone to attend more to negative than to positive outcomes.
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Type T individuals
Nature definitely plays a role in determining who has courage. Research in neuroscience shows that some people have a thrill-seeking or “Type T” personality.
But even if some of us have a greater capacity for risk-taking (genetically speaking), it doesn’t mean that they will ne...
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