Book description
The keys to understanding and developing courage
This groundbreaking book reveals that courage is more about
managing fear than not feeling it, and that courage can be
learned. The author explains that most courageous people are unaware
of their own bravery, and all of us have some form of courage in our
lives now, to start with. The book is filled with illustrative
examples, studies, and interviews from Greenland to Kenya, and defines
the types of individuals who demonstrate general, personal, and civil
courage. The author includes clear guidelines and suggestions for
increasing our ability to be courageous.
- Includes guidelines that show how anyone can ramp-up their
courage quotient and develop the qualities that strengthen
personal courage
- Contains a wealth of examples and anecdotes of real-world
courage from a variety of cultures
- A prolific writer, the author has a popular blog Psychology
Today
The author extols the virtues of personal courage and shows how to
overcome fear and stand up for what is right.
Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener is widely known as the "Indiana Jones
of positive psychology" because his research has taken him to
such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya, and Israel. The
foremost authority on positive psychology coaching, he is managing
director of Positive Acorn LLC (www. positiveacorn. com). His work has
been featured in Time, Newsweek, O!, Vogue, Reader's Digest, and on
NPR. Biswas-Diener lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and
children. He is afraid of quicksand and snakes.
