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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBeing brave and taking risks in life doesn’t guarantee that you will achieve epic things in life, but being meek and taking no risks will guarantee your failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I personally believe that bravery is a skill that we cultivate through practice and real life exposure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No child is born braver than another. However unfortunately a lot of children are brainwashed to become afraid and more risk averse as a consequence of their overprotective helicopter parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m fortunate enough that I was raised by the best mom ever, who gave me pretty much 100% freedom as a child growing up. This taught me peroenal autonomy, independence, and it taught me not to be afraid of anything or anyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Is there a practical utility to being brave? Why be brave anyways? <\/p>\n\n\n\n First of all, I think life is far less boring and more interesting when we take the brave and risky options in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Secondly, taking risks and being brave makes us stronger; both physically and mentally. If you want to lift heavier weights at the gym, you must not be afraid of “hurting yourself” (as other people try to scare you).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thirdly, when you’re brave and put yourself out there, you will start building up a following, you will gain influence, and you will have the opportunity to make a deeper impact on earth. I don’t think it really matters what your beliefs are, as long as you don’t censor yourself and as long as your opinion and thoughts are genuine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore by being brave yourself, you can inspire others to to be brave; a chain reaction of bravery to benefit all of mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You got nothing to lose, everything to gain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Be brave, be courageous, and sometimes a bit insane. Say what’s on your mind and brain, and know that courage is all training and practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You lack nothing. You have it all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When life is dangerous, will you fall and cower? Or will you put on your armor and battle all the hours? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brave on! <\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to be epic in life, you must be brave, take chances, and take epic risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/yellow-red-eric-selfie_-scaled.jpg?fit=2856%2C4272&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126406,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126404\/revisions\/126406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/clouds-2000x1337.jpg?resize=2000%2C1337\")
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