Pepper de Callier: Things to Think About
“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” Winston Churchill What an elegantly simple way to capture one of life’s most important things to know. Fear is so misunderstood. I know I didn’t understand it for many years. I thought that courage was something that only fearless people experienced. But, the older I got, and the more senior executives I worked with, I began to learn about fear from people who experienced it on a far larger scale than mine. The more I spoke with these successful leaders, the deeper I got into their life stories. A constant theme in all their stories was overcoming something—a setback, a failure, a stutter, lack of education—you name it, they experienced it. InContinue Reading