"Alex Mandossian Answers the In Search Of Heroes Program Questions 'What Do you have the courage to pursue new ideas?'" by Ralph Zuranski
Well courage, as Mark Twain or Sam Clemens said, “Is not absence of fear. Courage is mastery of fear, a resistance of fear.”
You must be fearful, otherwise you won’t be self preserving. So, if courage means resistance to fear or mastery or fear, as I believe it is, then bottom line is, it does take courage.
You have fear and you just beat the fear you have. Okay! Now let’s say for example, I made a mistake during this interview. I’m just going to tell on myself, you called me and I forgot to put the call waiting on hold. Okay, so I’m going to do it right now so we don’t have anymore interruptions.
When I call someone, I usually do it. But, I didn’t do it when you called me because I just forgot. So, then we have these little interruptions.
Okay, now by stating that, “I didn’t put the call waiting on hold” we’ve had a few interruptions. You heard the beeps. I am now telling on myself. By telling on myself, that makes me human. Somehow I think it breads more trust.
Now I didn’t do it on purpose. So, I could state it but here’s an opportunity, and I’m taking advantage of it, and it allows me to exhibit humility, because I am a little bit ashamed that this is happening, because, this is exactly what I teach people not to do during a call.
So, hang on a second….Okay, so what I did is I pressed the flash button, I pressed * 70. Now we wont have anymore interruptions. So I saw the problem. I took accountability. I just solved it. So from hope, to expectation to optimism in real time, how’s that?
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