I think courage is more than just the absence of fear, I think it’s the ability to take actions that are important but difficult or dangerous, while being fully aware of the risks. Similar to what Qiaochu_Yuan said, just going through life doing dangerous stuff without caring out the consequences is recklessness, not courage. I think you may or may not have fear when an action is dangerous, but you can be courageous regardless of whether you’re afraid.
To me, CoZE seems like it’s more targeted at decreasing fear than it is at increasing courage. A lot of what’s involved in CoZE is getting your subconscious to understand that lots of things that are scary aren’t actually difficult or dangerous. Targeting courage itself seems harder, at least in my conception, because it requires actually doing difficult or dangerous things. I don’t have any genius ideas of how to train courage, but it seems like activities that force you to do difficult tasks as part of a group, such as team sports or military training, have traditionally been used to train courage.
I think courage is more than just the absence of fear, I think it’s the ability to take actions that are important but difficult or dangerous, while being fully aware of the risks. Similar to what Qiaochu_Yuan said, just going through life doing dangerous stuff without caring out the consequences is recklessness, not courage. I think you may or may not have fear when an action is dangerous, but you can be courageous regardless of whether you’re afraid.
To me, CoZE seems like it’s more targeted at decreasing fear than it is at increasing courage. A lot of what’s involved in CoZE is getting your subconscious to understand that lots of things that are scary aren’t actually difficult or dangerous. Targeting courage itself seems harder, at least in my conception, because it requires actually doing difficult or dangerous things. I don’t have any genius ideas of how to train courage, but it seems like activities that force you to do difficult tasks as part of a group, such as team sports or military training, have traditionally been used to train courage.