Courage - does it even exist?

Illusion or reality?

In the book Lieber die ganze Welt gegen mich als meine Seele (Better the whole world against me than my soul ), I showed the polarity between poverty and arrogance. I then placed humility in the middle.

Is there such a thing as what we generally regard as courage?

During my last flight to Los Angeles, I read an article by Helge Zimmerberg in a magazine about the courage of a Maasai. This elderly Maasai had the task of guarding the tourists' camp in the savannah at night. He had a long, rather thin stick as a "weapon."

The tent in the middle of the wilderness, surrounded by wild animals and protected only by a single guard? And it came as it had to, a lioness stalked us.

The majority of those sleeping in the tent didn't notice. The Maasai jumps up. He walks straight and fast towards the lioness. He rushes towards the hungry predator, which could have torn him apart in an instant. We know this, but the lioness does not. She is a prisoner of her reflexes. What runs away is chased, what freezes and stops is usually eaten. But what approaches her purposefully is not a sacrificial animal. And so the lioness took to her heels.

Was the Maasai particularly brave?

In my context, I say no. He was humble. He didn't need to be brave because he knew what made the lioness tick. He was not in an ignorance from which we would create an illusion. Felix Baumgartner jumped from space and said in an interview that we had spent five years thinking through all the dangers and finding solutions.

So I didn't need to be afraid.

Do we only find something courageous because we haven't dealt with it and then make up dangers in our own minds? Poverty usually uses creativity to think up why it won't work or what bad things could happen. Creates "negative" illusions. Pride uses the mind for arrogant fantasies, for unrealistic "positive" illusions. In the middle, the world becomes real.

Humility as accepting what really is. Facts without judgment. Understanding how the lioness is programmed. In business, weigh up risks and opportunities equally and then make your own choice, as Warren Buffett does so well. There is no such thing as classic courage.

In this sense, get real - it frees you from illusionary fears, allowing you to achieve anything you want in the real world. In life, anything is possible. In illusion, everything unreal is as fleeting as your emotions.

With SeelenPower and The Week for Life, we have created seminars that help you to live consistently in the power of humility. And thus achieve more than before.

So, get real, as I like to say. Catch yourself in your "false" fantasies and create the reality you want. This after you have accepted the wonderful world and life that already exists.

Enjoy Life!

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