Love this piece Grant. It’s an admirable to become an EMT and even more so when you fully explain your reasons why.
Recently I read that Jerry Seinfeld said that the human condition could be boiled down to one word: confront. Can you confront the fears in your life, face them instead of avoiding them, and overcome them? To me this means there are lots of opportunities to demonstrate courage. Now maybe that’s lower-case c courage and not Courage of battlefields and life-and-death situations. But I do think that modern life gives plenty of opportunities to show inner courage if you’re able to confront the things your mind most wants to avoid
Congratulations on your career change, and full props for competing in BJJ--impressive! How did you do in the final?
Until recently, most women displayed real courage by going through childbirth, often several times. You’ll probably see that as an EMT. Increasingly with epidurals and C-sections the courage factor is lessened somewhat in many cases but it’s still very impressive.
Greeks, who had a high standard of courage, considered childbirth a woman’s battlefield, her opportunity to display arete.
My intuition is that the birth rate is declining in advanced economies partly because we’ve demoralized young women and they’re fearful of giving birth.
Childbirth was also one of the main examples that came to mind. I'm going to add that into another revision of the essay at some point. And yeah, the most difficult / shocking part of my training was childbirth. I hope I get to participate in that at some point
Love this piece Grant. It’s an admirable to become an EMT and even more so when you fully explain your reasons why.
Recently I read that Jerry Seinfeld said that the human condition could be boiled down to one word: confront. Can you confront the fears in your life, face them instead of avoiding them, and overcome them? To me this means there are lots of opportunities to demonstrate courage. Now maybe that’s lower-case c courage and not Courage of battlefields and life-and-death situations. But I do think that modern life gives plenty of opportunities to show inner courage if you’re able to confront the things your mind most wants to avoid
Thanks so much for your feedback. I totally agree with Seinfeld's sentiment.
I think courage is a spectrum, just like all of the other emotions and experiences.
Congratulations on your career change, and full props for competing in BJJ--impressive! How did you do in the final?
Until recently, most women displayed real courage by going through childbirth, often several times. You’ll probably see that as an EMT. Increasingly with epidurals and C-sections the courage factor is lessened somewhat in many cases but it’s still very impressive.
Greeks, who had a high standard of courage, considered childbirth a woman’s battlefield, her opportunity to display arete.
My intuition is that the birth rate is declining in advanced economies partly because we’ve demoralized young women and they’re fearful of giving birth.
Thanks Chris!
Childbirth was also one of the main examples that came to mind. I'm going to add that into another revision of the essay at some point. And yeah, the most difficult / shocking part of my training was childbirth. I hope I get to participate in that at some point
I'm sure you will!