Courage

Pope Francis said :”My young friends: to go against the current, this is good for the heart,  but we need courage to swim against the tide.  Jesus  gives us this courage.

One of  the gravest problem in life is self-limitation.  We are creating defense mechanisms to protect us from the anxiety that comes with freedom. We refuse to fulfill our potential .  We live only marginally.  This was Freud’s  definition of psychoneurosis.  We limit how we live so that we can limit the amount of anxiety that we experience. 

We end up tranquilizing many of life’s functions. We shut down the centers of entrepreneurial and creative thinking in effect,we halt progress and growth. 

But no significant decision—-personal or organizational - has  ever been undertaken without being attended by an existential crisis,or without a commitment to wade through anxiety,  uncertainly and guilt.

That’s what we mean by transformation .  You can’t just change how you think or the way that you act — you must change the way that you will.  You must gain control over the patterns that govern your mind: your worldview, your beliefs about what  you deserve and about what’s possible.  That’s the zone of fundamental change,strength and energy — and the true meaning of courage. 

 In our World  “vision”might be one of the  most overused words in business,but in fact vision — in the sense of great or big thinking and fostering  the capacity for ongoing inventiveness — is rarely practiced. And courage is demonstrated even more rarely. When we talk about courage,we usually mean having guts or taking risks. But you talk about courage as if it were an almost mythic quality —- one that lies at the heart of leadership success.

 Ethics refers to the basic human values of integrity,love,grace and meaning. This dimension represents a higher level of development,  one ruled not by fear or pleasure but principle.  Courage is the realm of the will;  it involves the capacity to make things happen.  The philosophic roots of this dimension lie in fully understanding the centrality of free will in human affairs.

Courage involved both advocacy — the ability to take a stand — and the internalization of personal responsibility and accountability.

Rule my mind: wrote it on  2019-02-23 midnight