Here are some Illustrated Podnotes to go with the Modern Wisdom episode where Chris Williamson talks with Ryan Holiday
#378 - Ryan Holiday - Finding Courage & Overcoming Fear.
Here is the intro that accompanied the episode.
Ryan Holiday is a podcaster, marketer and an author.
Ryan's next series of books are on the four cardinal virtues of the Stoics with courage being the first and most fundamental. Courage isn't the sort of trait you consider as modern or sexy or massively advantageous when the world isn't at war. But having the ability to overcome your fears is a superpower no matter who you are.
Courage is all the virtues at their testing point - C.S. Lewis.
That it took Florence Nightingale X years to do it is secondary to the face that she did it.
There’s a spectrum between cowardice, recklessness, and courage.
Between the consideration and the act is the torture, Once you go it all falls away.
