Robert Biswas-Diener 
The Courage Quotient 
How Science Can Make You Braver

The keys to understanding and developing courage

This groundbreaking book reveals that courage is more aboutmanaging fear than not feeling it, and that courage can belearned. The author explains that most courageous people areunaware of their own bravery, and all of us have some form ofcourage in our lives now, to start with. The book is filled withillustrative examples, studies, and interviews from Greenland to Kenya, and defines the types of individuals who demonstrategeneral, personal, and civil courage. The author includes clearguidelines and suggestions for increasing our ability to becourageous.
* Includes guidelines that show how anyone can ramp-up theircourage quotient and develop the qualities that strengthen personalcourage
* Contains a wealth of examples and anecdotes of real-worldcourage from a variety of cultures
* A prolific writer, the author has a popular blog Psychology Today

The author extols the virtues of personal courage and shows howto overcome fear and stand up for what is right.

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Introduction: How I Found Courage ix

part 1 a crash course in courage

1 Your Courage Quotient 3

2 Measuring Courage 25

part 2 increasing courage by controlling fear

3 Ride the Emotional See-Saw 41

4 Think Magically 67

part 3 increasing courage by boosting the willingnessto act

5 Try Defiance 87

6 Be Out of the »In Crowd»107

7 Be Willing to Fail 121

part 4 conclusion

8 From the Research Laboratory to Real Life 139

Appendix I: Test Your Courage Quotient 151

Appendix II: Locate Your Own Brand of Courage 157

References 159

Acknowledgments 169

About the Author 171

Index 173

Об авторе

Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener is widely known as the ‘Indiana Jones of positive psychology’ because his research has taken him to such far-flung places as Greenland, India, Kenya, and Israel. The foremost authority on positive psychology coaching, he is managing director of Positive Acorn LLC (www.positiveacorn.com). His work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, O!, Vogue, Reader’s Digest, and on NPR. Biswas-Diener lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and children. He is afraid of quicksand and snakes.