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the calculated leap that looks like luck to everyone watching from the cliff's edge
means the quality of being confident and willing to take risks, acting without timidity even when the situation invites caution
from From Old English "beald," meaning brave or confident, with the abstract noun ending "-ness" stacked on top to turn a quality into a thing you can possess. "Beald" traces back to a Proto-Germanic root "balthaz" (bold, brave), a cousin of the Old High German "bald." The same ancient root may survive hidden inside names — "Baldwin" literally meaning something like "bold friend." So every time you call someone bold, you're reaching for a word the Anglo-Saxons would have recognized in the mouth of a warrior.
- latin root
- audacia gave us audacious and audio's bold cousin
- physical tell
- reduces stress hormones by reframing fear as excitement
- goethe quote
- boldness has genius, power, and magic in it
- decision speed
- bold choices made faster, regretted no more often
- survival edge
- early humans who risked new territory left more descendants
steve jobs' iphone launch — introduced the first iphone on january 9, 2007, revolutionizing mobile technology with no stylus or keyboard
rosa parks' bus refusal — refused to give up her seat in montgomery, alabama on december 1, 1955, sparking the civil rights movement