This is the 10% Happier Podcast.

I'm Dan Harris.

Hello everybody. How we doing?

Okay, so we've all been there, those moments of uncertainty and fear where we freeze, we feel paralyzed, we overanalyze, we overthink, and then as a consequence, we fail to take action in ways that can later produce a lot of shame and regret.

I suspect this situation I'm describing right here is increasingly common right now when anxiety and uncertainty are through the roof.

We're dealing with so many X factors in the world right now.

AI, war, political polarization, I could go on.

So in this context, in a world that is more uncertain perhaps than ever, that leaks into our daily lives in all sorts of conscious and subconscious

ways, in this context, how do you give yourself the resources to get out of paralysis and into action? In other words, how do you

develop, and I'm going to use a loaded word here, courage? You may be tempted to think of courage

as an inalterable factory setting, but my guest today argues that it's actually a skill, which is right on point with the major theme of this show, that happiness and all the states of mind we want are, in fact, skills.

And my guest is going to lay out a bunch of very practical ways to develop the skill of courage, ways that are doable for any of us, even if we might think of ourselves as fundamentally fearful,

even cowardly. I'm looking at myself here. Not for Nothing said guest actually has a good

semi-defense of cowardice, or at least an explanation that made me feel a little bit better.

My guest is Run J. Galati. He's a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of a book called

How to Be Bold. We talk about the difference between being courageous and being reckless,

how to accept your fears without being controlled by them, tools for remaining calm in the face of

disaster, how to find your moral anchors. I'll let him explain what that means. The importance of having a

support squad, how to inculcate courage into your family, your workplace, and your friend group,

and much more. By the way, and bear with me for this segue here, it is very hard to be courageous

if you haven't slept. Over on the 10% app, we are now going big on sleep.

In my experience, sleep is one of the most popular use cases for meditation apps. So starting

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