Courage Is Calling
Courage in its everyday form: the willingness to be disliked, to speak up, and to begin.
The first of Holiday’s four cardinal-virtue books argues that courage is the virtue that makes the others possible, and that its everyday form is not battlefield heroism but the willingness to be disliked, to speak up, and to begin. The historical examples run wide, and the argument underneath is that fear is the constant while the response to it is the only variable.
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