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Not the absence of fear, just the absence of fear running the meeting.
means The quality of acting rightly or boldly even while fear is present, rather than having no fear at all.
from Built from 'fear' — from Old English 'fær', meaning sudden danger or calamity before it came to mean the emotion itself — plus the negating suffix '-less' and the noun-forming '-ness'. So the word is literally 'danger-free-ness,' though in practice it's never meant a life free of danger, just a self no longer governed by it.
- not courage
- courage feels fear and acts anyway
- common myth
- fearless people usually just have low information
- neuroscience note
- amygdala damage can literally produce it, uselessly
- the catch
- too much of it reads as recklessness, not strength