Ranjay Gulati

And yeah, but again, human progress is because a few of them chose to face into danger.

The Wright brothers, when they invented the airplane, guess who flew in the plane?

They did.

That was risky and uncertain, right?

When you have Alexander Fleming injecting himself with penicillin to see if it works.

So you have all these people who really put themselves out there.

in the face of uncertainty.

So the puzzle then, the puzzle, the question really is, what is it that allows ordinary people to take bold action?

And into that question is rolled another question, can we learn to become bold or are we simply just born bold?

To which you say what?

To which I say what I looked at all these courageous people and I interviewed them and there was several hundred of them, most of them,

became courageous.

They had taught themselves to be courageous.

And then I discovered that they actually had strategies to deal with fear.

They tamed the fear.

They engaged with the fear.

They took action in spite of the fear.

I'll give you an example.

Brandon Say.

Brandon Say was a cashier at a dance hall in California.