Embracing Fear To Follow Your Heart: Living With Courage

Have you ever wanted to do something but thought, why take the risk? It takes courage to be able to do the things you want and overcome your fears. In “Living with Courage: Embracing Fear to Follow Your Heart”, Kelley Kalafatich quoted Eleanor Roosevelt by saying, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you cannot do.” This means that by experiencing fear, a person gains strength, courage, and confidence. After taking on a challenge, a person will know that they are able to take on the next one. Also, a person must take on the challenges that seem impossible. Having courage doesn’t mean to be fearless, but to overcome those fears. Without fear, there is no courage. Courage is universal and can be connected to personal lives, the arts, and the world.

To begin, living with courage can be connected to

First, Pablo Picasso had courage to stick with his own style of art even though it was different from everyone else’s. To explain, Picasso knew that criticism could have ended his career because he kept coming up with new concepts like cubism which gives a new perspective to an object. Picasso overcame his fear and kept working on his own style of art. Second, there was a lot of controversy over Picasso’s art style. For instance, A lot of people said that his art was a mockery of real art. However, Picasso ignored the controversy and became a very famous artist because he kept experimenting with different styles of art. Third, Picasso’s courage led the way to modern art. For example, the concept of collage and Picasso’s innovations paved the way to surrealism and expressionism which are arts created to find the potential of a person’s unconscious mind and emotions. In conclusion, courage can be connected to the