Ranjay Gulati

I was looking at Brandon Say, a cashier at a dance hall in California when a mass shooter came in.

Captain Sullenberger who landed the plane in the Hudson River.

But not just people like that who are in the moment courageous.

I also looked at Frances Haugen, who was my former student, who spent one year agonizing over whether she should be the whistleblower at Facebook.

And so there is sometimes there are instinctive in moment courage.

Some are more intentional, deliberate courage.

Some involve physical courage, meaning it's physical danger.

Some are moral courage.

The word courage gets associated a lot and is confused.

So I was trying to say, my biggest learning was that courage is accessible to all.

It's a skill, it's a muscle we can all acquire.

Given the uncertainty in the world around us and the manifest fear that comes with it, I think it's important to think about courage as a currency we all need today.

We need to resource ourselves to not let fear paralyze us.

in the world we are trying to navigate and live through right now.

I should preface that by saying, historically, human beings, when they'd encountered uncertainty and fear, they prayed.

A belief in a higher power.

The most effective way humankind for thousands of years has found to deal with uncertainty is to pray.

A belief in a higher source as being there for me is an important way in which people kind of cope.

Now, there are other ways in which people also understand this.

And I found the following among most of these people.