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Courage is overrated. At least it's overestimated. You don't have to live courageously. In fact, you could be a coward 99.93055556% of the time,

to be exact. You only need to be courageous for, let's say, 20 seconds at a time. Those 20 seconds

when you pick up the phone to call that big cahoon a prospect. The 20 seconds when you walk up to a circle of strangers

and introduce yourself.

The 20 seconds that you volunteer to come up on stage.

The 20 seconds that you contemplate jumping into the icy cold water.

20 seconds you are arguing with your spouse

and choosing to relent. The 20 seconds that you arguing with your spouse and choosing to relent.

The 20 seconds that you know you need to have that tough conversation with a friend.

The 20 seconds before you know it's time to let someone go.

Or you need to say no even though it will make you unpopular.

Those 20 seconds that you ready yourself to jump out of the plane.

Each one of those defining moments only requires 20 seconds of real courage, at most.

Once 20 seconds are over, it's easy breezy from there.

You see, fear is an illusion that we make up in our mind.

An illusion can only exist in the absence of reality.

Once reality takes over, the illusion dissipates. Fear mostly comes in the anticipation of the

experience, not actually in the experience itself. Let's take jumping out of an airplane as an

example. Seymour Epstein of the University of Massachusetts

at Amherst conducted a study in which novice jumpers were fitted with heart rate monitors

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