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not the absence of fear but the decision that something matters more.
means The quality of facing danger, fear, or pain with courage rather than being stopped by it.
from From 'brave,' which entered English in the 1500s by way of French 'brave' (bold, valiant), borrowed from Italian 'bravo' — a word with a curious split personality, meaning both 'bold' and 'wild,' and possibly tracing back to Latin 'barbarus' (foreign, savage) or 'pravus' (crooked, wicked). So the road to courage may have started, oddly, at a word for outsider or scoundrel — the untamed person who didn't flinch. The '-ery' suffix simply turns the trait into the thing itself: the practice of being brave.
- brain chemistry
- courage activates the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex to override fear
- latin root
- comes from barbarus, originally meaning wild or savage
- medal cost
- Victoria Cross is forged from captured Russian cannon bronze
- animal proof
- meerkats post lookout sentries who risk death for the group
- contagion
- witnessing courage measurably makes bystanders bolder too
malala yousafzai — shot by taliban in 2012 pakistan for advocating girls' education, survived and continued activism, won nobel prize 2014
storming of bastille — parisian crowd attacked fortress on july 14, 1789, sparked french revolution despite armed guards and cannons