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Aristotle said courage is the most important virtue as it\u2019s the one needed when other virtues are at testing point.<\/p>\n
This week is the 50th anniversary of MLK Jr\u2019s assassination. A few years ago, whilst tandeming across the USA with Christine, we visited the Memphis motel-turned-museum where he was shot on a balcony. Holy ground.<\/p>\n
In their book \u201cThe Power of Moments\u201d Chip & Dan Heath discuss the cafe \u201csit-ins\u201d that MLK organised: black students sitting in white-only cafes – resulting in horrendous abuse. The students refused to retaliate, and by taking a beating, they helped change history.<\/p>\n
However, the students didn\u2019t find their super-human courage only from the nobility of their cause. Rather, they\u2019d prepared by putting themselves through training, especially in role-plays where they were insulted and slapped by actors. So they developed courage for the real thing.<\/p>\n
Research shows that exposing ourselves to scary tests, even in role-play, does actually grow our courage. Thus we shouldn\u2019t just hope to miraculously have courage when the moment demands it. We can regularly expose ourselves to contexts requiring courage – so when the true tests of life come, we\u2019re more ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aristotle said courage is the most important virtue as it\u2019s the one needed when other virtues are at testing point. This week is the 50th anniversary of MLK Jr\u2019s assassination. A few years ago, whilst tandeming across the USA with Christine, we visited the Memphis motel-turned-museum where he was shot on a balcony. Holy ground. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n