“There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse…”

by Shane Parrish on October 4, 2012

We associate the willingness to risk great failure — and the ability to climb back from catastrophe–with courage. But in this we are wrong… There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.

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