So we left off talking about courage as being the most important virtue, because without

courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently.

And this reminds me that old quote, when you do what you fear, fear disappears.

So it's not, courage is not a matter of absence of fear.

It's like feeling the fear and going towards it anyways, right? And that

head into the wind approach to life is what lets you kind of, I guess, exhibit other virtues

consistently. The thing that I would comment on, like, I love this book, but some of the

stuff that we were talking about on the brain are things

that just kind of like change. And I read a lot of the stuff about the brain after I had read

this book for the first time. And it kind of just changed my perspective on like some of the,

some of the ideas that he's throwing out there like, hey,

you want to do things that you're fearful of in order to overcome them, but you want to do it

in a thoughtful kind of way that you don't actually put yourself in danger.

People will just like cling to these cliches of like, oh, do the things you're fearful

of, right?

Well, you have these fear-based things that are wired into your defense mechanisms

and your survival mechanisms for just how your human brain functions. And you want those things

to function well in a balanced kind of way. You don't want to be scared of walking down the street.

You know, that's not a chemical balance that's probably a healthy chemical balance in somebody's brain. But I think that if somebody

has something that early on in their childhood that created some type of fear-induced reaction

to their environment for something that just doesn't make sense.

I had, I knew a person, scared of balloons.

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