Courage Quotient | Do You Recognised It ?

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In the mid - 1990’s, Daniel Goleman introduced the period “emotional intelligence” to the game globe contending that our talent to operate our emotions and relationships with others was twice now important because our intelligence quotient ( IQ ) and action in predicting our success seeing leaders. Ten years later, we peer frequent reference to “EI”, and own varied deviating assessments that will assist us measure our own EQ – emotional quotient. Most of you declaiming this would permit that having a high EQ is at antecedent important, if not leading for those in positions of leadership—formal and natural.

I engage and will further contend that equally important is having a high Courage Quotient, ( CQ ).

In my down home country, the USA, we entered the 21st century full of optimism, moderately easygoing and “fearless” particular since we had successfully navigated the Y2K transition. And hence that augural date, September 11, 2001, “9 - 11” altered my country, yours and our cosmos expanded. In literally a matter of reminiscence, we went from a state of “fearlessness” to one of total qualm. And when faced with despair, we converge courage.

On that unpropitious lifetime and for multifarious to come, we proverb and heard demonstrations of courage at its uttermost. We proverb how the heart takes over, and we adage a spirit come alive. We learned why the derivative of courage is “corage” from medieval Senile French, pith affection and spirit seeing we adage our firefighting professionals break into the burning buildings, witnessed people canter for their lives from the 65th macadamize, and evenness of others with the courage to answer the phone wonderment if they will hear the inevitable….. It took courage to starch on to the proximate future, and the next….

Courage is about heart and spirit. And it is about tapping into that affection and spirit every tour of our lives. I am trite considered one of the lucky ones, for I retain no personal folktale to proclaim about loosing a main man or family slab, or trim fearing the strayed of one from the events of that second, and all that retain transpired considering a conclusion. Basically it is preciously those events that threw me into quickly forward on my expedition of courage, and put courage immense in addition on my radar squirrel.


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Quickly Company eager their September 2004 point to Courage, with the following lead in “Is courage obsolete? Heroism is awfully hard to find in the era of expedience, excuses, and evasion. ” I found it ironic that this leading edge magazine posed this question three years following 9 - 11….. what happened during those three years that led them to ask that question?

The good news is that the editors were able to find “walking among us” the truly courageous. Furthermore, they found that the wise words of Aristotle in approximately 350 BC were true, " Courage is the first of human virtues because it makes all the other virtues possible. "

The unfortunate news is that during that time we have several examples of leaders who chose not to face their fears - - - those inner fears of failure; of being wrong; of self doubt; of letting go; of facing the mirror; of saying “the emperor has no clothes on”. Perhaps the truest sign of courage is when we are able to live our life true to our values, to a purpose, and owning the consequences that result. Holding ourselves 100 % accountable for our choices is one of the basic behaviors of courage.

Living a life with courage requires us to build our courage muscle, and just like building our other muscles, it takes commitment, exercise and practice. It takes truly knowing ourselves and our comfort zone, and consciously choosing everyday to step outside of it—at least once. It takes connecting our heart and our mind, and trusting our gut. It takes identifying all of our fears and facing them, head on, often just asking what’s the worse that can happen? It takes goals, and humility to say, “I’m wrong” ,"I think...", "I'm not confident"or “it didn’t work. ” It takes the moving action.

Christopher Reeve showed us how to live a life with courage, giving credence to the philosopher Seneca, “sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ” In an essay he was writing at the time of his death, he shares his profound story of living a fearless life, and reminds us, when we do, we make the world a better place for those who come behind us - - - perhaps that is the ultimate reason for having a high CQ. ( Ode issue 22 )


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