Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- .See also: worry fear. --- 12/30/2003
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- .This section is about bravery and cowardice. Topics include: ( ) Bravery. ( ) Cowardice. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- (1) Bravery definition. Bravery means not repressing your drives, memories, emotions, thoughts, actions, attitudes, personality. (2) Cowardice definition. Repressing same. Giving up ideals for survival or easy life, in thought, in word, in action, by degree. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- (1) Bravery to fight opposition from self (fear or anxiety), others or nature. (2) Bravery to remain an independent rebel, in mind and action, all the time, everywhere. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- (1) Personal bravery and personal cowardice, when only you know what you did. (2) Social bravery and social cowardice, when everyone else knows what you did. --- 11/13/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery = battling against doom. The heroic ideal. Against the fears and anxieties of life, all we have is bravery, not hope, not delusions or prayers, not repression, only full, complete recognition, and bravery, and laughter. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery attitudes: Fu*k it. Who gives a fu*k. I don't give a fu*k. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery for what you believe in. What you believe is true, important, right, healthy, justice, freedom. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery is action, bravery is healthy. Cowardice is unhealthy. Stupidity is unhealthy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery is based on subjective perception of fear, not objective measures of danger. Consider two arguments: (1) Phobics who work to overcome their baseless subjective fears are actually quite brave. (2) Someone who faces a high degree of an objective danger, knowingly or unknowingly, with no feelings of fear at all, is not necessarily brave. Perhaps they don't care if they die. Perhaps they have no emotions. --- 5/25/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery is closely related to mental health. Whether we want it to be or not. Whether we acknowledge it or not. Whether we are conscious or unconscious of it. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery is courage during crisis situations. But there is another type of courage which is required in day to day life. The courage to put up with the mundane. And this form of courage is merely a lack of anxiety. --- 3/21/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery is the basis of confrontational action, assertive action, and anger based action, which are all healthy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery, courage, and smart action is the only defense against depression and anxiety. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery, definition. Searching for and committing to most truthful ideas, and taking action on them. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. (1) Apparent bravery. Could be stupidity or recklessness or blind obedience. (2) Actual bravery. Knowledge of danger. Free choice to proceed. (3) Brave and smart vs. brave and stupid. Unwitting actors are not brave nor heroes. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. Doing something without extrinsic reward, in the face of punishment, without certainty of results, in the face of opposition and struggle, is it a sign of stupidity or self confidence? --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. One of the great acts of bravery was the civil rights marchers in the South in the early 1960's. Why? (1) Facing obvious opposition from local government, cops, and public. (2) Real danger of being killed. (3) They risked all this to help someone else, not themselves. (4) No one was forcing them to do it. (5) They were very sensitive and intelligent people, thus fully aware of the risks. (6) They picked a risk that was work, not fun (as opposed to danger sport devotees), and that could make a big positive difference in the world. Practical reason alone would say "don't go". High ethical principles would say to "go". Those workers are truly a model for high ethical behavior. --- 12/30/1996
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. Really brave people. (1) Those who fought against mccarthyism, and its government intimidation and guilt by suspicion. (2) Turn of century labor movement vs. the unethical violence of the union busters. (3) Civil rights movement non-violent resistance marchers, bus riders, and restaurant sitters. --- 1/10/1998
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. The really brave people are those who battle big foes that are many in number and violent in opposition. Examples. (1) Those who battle unjust governments that deny human rights. (2) Those who battled racism in the South in the 1950s. Entrenched cultural injustice. (3) Those newspaper reporters, judges, and lawyers who fought against the Colombian and Mafia drug cartels in the 1980s. --- 1/6/1998
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. Traits of true bravery. (1) Volunteer, rather than being selected. (2) Face opposition and danger. (3) To help someone else (i.e., altruism) rather than doing it for your own benefit (i.e., egoism). (4) Expend a lot of personal time and effort. Struggling for years. --- 11/20/2001
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. What constitutes bravery? Action without knowledge of probability of opposition or success is not bravery. Action with knowledge of same is bravery. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Bravery. What if they draft you into military service, giving you no choice in the matter, and sending the draft dodgers to prison? That is, if they force you to fight in a war, giving you no choice in the matter and executing those who desert, then I suppose you could call that bravery, but I don't think that it is the only form of bravery, or even the highest form of bravery. --- 5/25/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Courage of convictions to mentalize, to say, and to do: "I think this is true and right, and no matter what you do or say about it or me, I'm going to do this for all I'm worth". --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Cowardice is giving up all your ideals, hopes, visions and dreams in order to be utterly practical and realistic. Cowardice is to compromise and settle. Cowardice is to give up on one's highest values. --- 11/13/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Cowardice is giving up your ideals for the sake of personal survival. --- 01/02/1989
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Cowardice is selling out for comfort or selling out for money. --- 11/13/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Cowardice. Conformity due to cowardice leads to slavery. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Cowardice. Selling out for safety. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Is bravery and cowardice a purely emotional topic? Can not one think (reason) brave thoughts and then perform brave actions? Is not bravery also an ethical issue? It is. I put all bravery notes here in one spot for convenience, however, bravery is an emotion, thought, attitude, action and ethical issue, all of them. --- 4/29/2001
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- Repression and neurosis is a form of cowardice. Cowardice is fear and anxiety. Bravery is health. --- 9/29/1998
Psychology, emotion, specific, bravery cowardice. --- The brave feel fear, but do not let fear rule them. The brave do not give in to fear. --- 9/29/1998