Ranjay Gulati

But somehow she has decided that she herself is not somebody that she wants to take bold steps for.

Whether she feels them as heightened risk, not worth taking, or she experiences that something that doesn't align with her self-belief, hard for me to say.

But I think she'd be so well served if she did allow herself to experience courage in her own life.

Yes, absolutely.

And you're absolutely right.

So that's where the great illustration of context dependence of courage that in certain conditions we are willing to.

Now the parent child I think is almost genetically hardwired in us as we know, helping our own genetic pool survive.

But people stand up for causes.

which I find is, you know, that go beyond them.

One of, I describe in my book, the freedom summer where these young undergraduate, mostly white kids went down to Mississippi for a voter registration drive.

And most of them stayed even after a few were lynched in the first few days.

And so what is it that leads people to risk life and limb for something they believe in?

I think that to me is another piece to think about where people do extraordinary things.

in pursuit of something that aligns with their own belief and their own judgment of themselves and aligns with their own values.

The courage that I had at that time

is really very rare in my life, in fact, because as I grew older, as I became more and more socially experienced,

In fact, I just want to play a hero, if you will.

So I want to ask, is ignorance actually a factor that leads to courage?

Thank you.

So Thomas asked a great question.