Being Courageous Research Paper

To be courageous one must know that they are taking a risk. They must also know that they are thinking of others and not only themselves. For an act to be courageous the act must be thought long enough to process but not long enough to prepare for mentally. One must step out of their comfort zone. Courageous acts are the act made by the less experienced bystanders, not the trained professionals. For an act to be courageous it must have a fear factor to it.

Knowing that you are taking a risk weather it may be your life on the line or knowing that someone else's life depends on it is courageous. Courage is brought upon and there is always a choice. Courage makes you choose, you are either going to take your life for someone or you will just stand and watch. Or you will watch someone is bullied but you decide to step up and defend …show more content…
Courageousness is a very in the moment feeling. Knowing that you're going to go swim with alligators 2 weeks in advance doesn't make you courageous it just makes you stupid. On the other hand, if you were jumping into the lake to save your friend from drowning with an alligator than yes that's courageous because you're making a split second decision.

Stepping out of your comfort zone to go jump into a burning building to save children trapped is courageous. Professionally trained assassins aren't afraid to kill someone that being courageous to save your own life and having to kill another is courageous. Saving a damsel in distress even though you are an accountant with no fighting experience is stepping out of your comfort zone and being courageous.

Courage involves a lot of fear factor. Fear can either make you fight or flight. The option to fight is what makes you courageous. Standing up to a bully 3 times your size is very frightening but it takes courage to do so. Courage must make you feel scared but then your adrenalin kicks in and you don't even remember saving a drowning