Where does human courage come from?

"In this dice-rolling world, one must have a will of steel, wear armor to face the blows of fate, and take weapons to sweep the road that stands in the way. Life is a long struggle, and every Every step requires struggle." People who lack courage are destined to live in fear and anxiety in such a world, unable to enjoy the glory brought by courage and the joy from the depths of life after successful struggle in the long journey of life.

In the face of an uncertain world, we need to have enough courage, but courage will not increase in a vacuum. Sometimes it requires a competitive environment, like when we were tadpoles competing with countless other tadpoles for survival.

The most primitive fearless courage comes from the instinct of life when there is no time to take care of too much in order to survive in a specific environment. From this point of view, courage is everyone’s companion, whether it’s laughing out loud with a handful of condoms in hand, or croaking with a cry. Purely without courage, he was eliminated in the fierce competition of the little tadpoles. Innate courage is the starting point and basis of courage in life. This is the first source of courage in life, and also the original source.

However, this initial courage, compared with the courage honed in the world of mortals, seems naive and stubborn. Due to having experienced a series of events and having responded to various successes or failures in the series, the latter, like the young and middle-aged, is obviously more rational and determined, distinct from cowardice and recklessness.

In an uncertain world, we are ultimately inextricably linked with the world. So far, I have never seen a person who is completely independent from the world. Even the most housebound men and women will order takeout to eat; even the most remote people will gather, hunt or barter. Access to basic living materials; even modern people, there will be more or less natural marble pasted on the walls and floors of their homes, enjoying the sunshine, air and springs given by nature; even emperors and rich people will encounter uncertainties from time to time. pressure, and even be influenced by it. In short, no matter who they are, they will face the uncertainties brought by life, work, domestic and foreign society and the wider world with the rising and setting of the sun every day. They muster up their courage and make a series of reactions.

Under the influence of this bit by bit, more or less, simple or complex, public or private, and accompanied by a series of clear and vague reactions that even we can't explain, our courage is quietly polished, slowly Slowly fade away childishness, try to figure out the boundary between more and less, no longer rampage or collapse, but continue to become rational and mature.

Objectively speaking, this is the result of a combination of rules that are dominated by uncertainty but with a little certainty. In such a complex environment, Initial Courage was forced to make adaptive transformations so that it could better match the rules of the deterministic world, the emotional needs of groups, etc., so that it could cope with or avoid uncertain risks such as natural and man-made disasters. Based on legitimacy, courage begins to step out of the complete control of life instinct, and begins to connect with various light and dark rules in the real world, such as law, morality, and even stereotypes. The amount of courage a person actually shows depends on the outcome of the game between uncertainty and certainty rules.

Under the influence of the external environment, out of self-protection and self-interest, courage has since then acquired the ability of a chameleon, and its size and even the way of expression begins to vary with the surrounding environment and occasions. Perhaps, the "chameleon" ability acquired by such courage after undergoing the transformation of the external world will be affected by the degree of understanding of the external world environment, personal status and influence, and even the role of the scene, etc., there will be great differences in sensitivity, but that It's just a matter of the size of the ability to "change color", and it does not hinder the nature of "color change". However, "change color" is not the whole ability of courage, but only the ability in a general sense. In some special historical circumstances, courage will also show unprecedented destructiveness, getting rid of the constraints of the external environment and transforming the external environment. This kind of courage to break away from tradition and create a new world can be regarded as a second source of courage in life, given that it mainly comes from the action of the external environment and is not "tamed" by the external world. Those with such courage are either "Destruction Kings" or historical "heroes" and "innovators" who drive change. They have become the main historical driving force for the liberation of productive forces in transforming the world.

Not only that, but if we carefully observe the external world, we will find that a person's scene role, that is to say his or her social role, although not as courageous as the "King of Destruction" and "Hero", can often be touched by courage. The "color-changing" boundary even breaks through the boundary, showing fearless courage that is different from its normal state. For example, a weak woman strangled a tiger to protect her child, and a cowardly guy became a hero after killing countless enemies after becoming a soldier, and so on. Whether you agree or not, at this point, we seem to have found a third source of courage—social roles. Under the aura of different social roles, people will have sudden and unreasonable courage.

Where does courage come from?

So far, I can probably answer like this:

Courage mainly comes from the instinct of life, the role of the external world and the blessing of social roles. If we take into account the chivalrous spirit and the love that can be met but not sought after since ancient times, the courage will also come from people's "helping the weak" to act bravely and morally. Concept and great love.

Whether there are other sources of courage is not clear, but these courage from oneself, others and the outside world, have been very emotional. Just imagine how our old ancestors, with the help of primitive rafts from the distant African land, overcame unimaginable difficulties, traversed the endless ocean, spread branches and leaves all over the world, sowed the seeds of life, and evolved for human beings. Provide multiple possibilities? If there is no courage, how can human beings go through the vicissitudes of life, overcome fear and cowardice, get out of ignorance and ignorance, and develop into the current prosperous modern society? If we don't have the courage, how can we live, work, create and transform calmly when we know that we live in a dusty global village in the vast universe, hoping to overcome any uncertain risks from heaven and earth? ?

Courage is a prerequisite for the survival, development and growth of this miracle of cosmic life. Live, live bravely, believe in yourself, move forward firmly in the direction you are pursuing, and don’t pay too much attention to those huge uncertain torrents, there must be hope to achieve your goals. This is a valuable experience summed up in the history of human development.

Live with confidence, live bravely, and tomorrow will definitely be better!