I recently moved to Gloucestershire, and close to where I live there is a tall, thin tower standing on a … Read More
The Democratisation of Knowledge
Courage
The Hero Path
Today’s blog post is courtesy of Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces and many other books, … Read More
The Art of Living Courageously Week 5: The Courageous Mindset
My main question for this week was: how do we integrate courage into our mindset in such a way that … Read More
The Art of Living Courageously Week 4: Motivation & Purpose
One of my pet theories on courage is that: WHEN MOTIVATION > FEAR => COURAGEOUS BEHAVIOUR In other words, we … Read More
The Art of Courageous Living Week 3: Intellectual Courage and Critical Thinking
The main purpose of Week 3’s class was to become better critical thinkers – not just to critique other people’s … Read More
The Art of Courageous Living Week 2: The Hero’s Journey
It’s Week 2 of my Yale class on Courage in Theory and Practice, and we talked about the Hero’s Journey, … Read More
The Art of Courageous Living Week 1: What is Courage?
Yesterday I started teaching a class at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, GLBL252 Courage in Theory and Practice. Over the … Read More