When war broke out in Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the daily conversations in its capital city, Belgrade, spoke only of evil. The city where I had grown up, where I had completed my medical studies, ...

Over the past 30 years, American culture has defined courage down. We have attributed courage to all manner of actions that may indeed be admirable but hardly compare to the conscious self-sacrifice ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... She’s been called the “kid-whisperer” of Mackworth Island. Pender Makin — Maine’s 2013 Principal of the Year — directs a public alternative high school on a ...

Traditionally, courage has been portrayed as a masculine trait. Think of the countless stories of knights and warriors lauded for their bravery in battle. However, courage is a universal human quality ...

I’ve spent a bit of time recently thinking about courage. I’ll be writing a number of posts on this topic over the next few months, but this is my initial offering and to get started the first thing ...

Leading others is a courageous task. Defined as, “strength in the face of pain or grief," the word courage comes from the Latin for heart. Indeed, especially in this age of rapid change, risks to our ...

Without courage to draw upon, we can't be our best selves. Our lives become narrow, our hearts small. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage” Anais Nin wrote. How true. As I explain ...