Ranjay Gulati

His first reaction is to duck under the table and hide.

Maybe the guy won't see me and he'll just go into the dance hall and do whatever he has to do.

And then he asked himself, you know, like, what am I doing?

This is my grandmother's dance hall.

My mother worked here her whole life till she passed away.

This has been our family's kind of, I'm the custodian of this place.

And by the way, the people who are dancing inside, all the people I've known since I was a kid, it was a ballroom dance place for seniors.

And he gets himself up.

opens the door, comes out and confronts the gunman and is able to, after a fight where the gunman punches this guy in the face multiple times, he's able to grab the gun away from him.

This is a guy who's never really ever fought with anybody ever.

So I had to ask him, like, how did you resource yourself and what did you do to compel yourself to do this?

I talked to Marines.

How do they compel themselves to put themselves in harm's way?

I talked to an astronaut who was a top gun pilot before.

Like, what compelled him to do what he does?

I talked to a Ukrainian mergers and acquisitions lawyer who is now a frontline commando in their undercover operations.

Like, why is he doing what he's doing?

And you discover that these people have found deliberate strategies that allow themselves to take on fear and take action.

First of all, I want to be very clear.

You said fearless.