Episode #31: How to Build and Use Courage to Face Your Fears and Chase Your Dreams

Today's podcast is all about courage.

We know from high performance studies that high performers use courage to plan out, chase and achieve their most important goals and dreams, and to stay focused on them when the going gets tough.

 And we know from neuroscience studies how and why courage can be created and used to achieve your goals.

Some of the things that we will discover in this podcast includes:

• There is a part of the brain that is used for development and use of courage
• That courage is a decision
• That courage can be created
• That courage can be used as a habit
• That you the more you build courage, the stronger it can be and easier it is to access

This podcast will cover:

• The component pieces of courage (What actually constitutes courage!) 
• Why it is important 
• The source and prevalence of courage
• The neuroscience of courage
• 5 principles or supports when practicing courage
• 3 science-backed ways to develop courage

Do you want to learn more about what your next steps should be to improve and achieve more?  Or what skills could be the most useful?
Having courage is an important part of the skillset when you want to set a goal and achieve something more in your life.

But what else do you need to know? 

I have created a quiz that is super useful in helping you figure out where you are in your improvement journey, the skills you should focus on, your next 3 steps, and some curated recommendations on tools and resources that can help you out.

Click here to access the quiz, or go to https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/63c201e29aac80001604e89c

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Chapters

• 1:14 High performance journey quiz
• 1:48 Introduction and podcast contents
• 2:40 Defining Courage
• 4:42 Why Build Courage
• 8:31 Prevalence and Source of Courage
• 12:50 Neuroscience of courage
• 22:59 Principles for building courage
• 27:41 3 science backed ways to build courage