A friend asked me a profound question recently: “How do you teach courage?”
Many leaders, she observed, seem to lack this quality, which the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle considered a virtue, a marker of moral excellence that moderated our instincts towards recklessness on the one hand and cowardice on the other. The courageous person was one who feared only things worthy of fear.
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