Yesterday, I sort-of publicly commited to focus on the virtue of courage in 2024 and beyond. I wrote a short post in the Heroic app about it, and got encouraged by many friendly fellow students/practitioners, even getting a boost and short comment by the founder Brian.
I signed up for their coaching class XX in late December, which is scheduled to start next week and which will lead through their 300 days mastery program. In that program, we’ll nurture the ancient virtues (e.g. in Stoic philosophy) of wisdom, courage, self-discipline/self-mastery, judgment/love, as well as five additional virtues science (especially positive psychology) showed help us to flourish as human beings, namely hope, curiosity, zest, gratitude, and love.
Fear and anxiety had a huge impact on my life, how I lived it, what I did and didn’t do. It is thus obvious that courage is the one virtue that harbors the largest potential for improvement for me.
Courage as in acting despite fear. Not getting rid of fear and anxiety and being happy ever after. But to act in the presence of fear.
Here is the post I wrote in the app yesterday:
I called it a ‘tiny act of courage’ and I want to look out for, plan, and do such acts every day now. Make it a habit. And I’ll document it here.