Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. My name is Jason Brooks. I am co-hosting today

with Mark Cole and we are excited for what you are about to hear. Mark is going to come

and open up after John teaches today. John is going to be teaching a lesson courage leading

a life of few regrets. You'll want to go grab the bonus resource for this lesson which

is to fill in the blank notes. You can visit maxwellpodcast.com forward slash courage. Click

the bonus resource button. Go ahead and download that PDF note because you'll want to capture

what John is teaching on. Mark will pick us up after John is done but here we go with Dr.

John's C Maxwell on courage leading a life of few regrets.

Dave of McCullough wrote a book called The Great Bridge. Now let me just stop here. He's

not well known for that book. But he wrote a book back in 1972 called The Great Bridge

and as usual McCullough tells a great story this time of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge

which arched the East River and joined Manhattan to Brooklyn. In 1872 the Chief Engineer

of the project wrote to such of the general public as might imagine that no work had been

done of the New York Tower because they see no evidence of it above the water. I should

simply remark that the amount, here we go, here's the phrase. The amount of masonry and

concrete laid on that foundation during the past winter underwater is equal to the quantity

of the entire masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge visibly today above the water line. In other

words he's talking and he's basically saying that there's as much work masonry wise under

the water as there is above the water. You only see half the bridge. You'd have to drain

the Hudson to be able to see the whole bridge. Now the foundation is half of it. I just came

back from Agra in India so we were at Agra at the Taj Mahal, one of the wonders of the

world. And it's staggering. What makes the Taj Mahal staggered? This is the second time

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