Sorry, I should've Given you this before...

In last weeks series, I talked about the 3 C's you need in life to thrive..

But I forgot to mention the one C that is perhaps much more important than all of those.

Because without this trait, it's virtually impossible to do anything remarkable in life.

It comes before the other 3 c's, it comes before any important action.

And this C is Courage.

Without courage, there is no you.

It's impossible to truly express yourself, to even dare to be something great without courage.

Evolution requires fear.

You fear that in your current state something worse than death is possible.

You need fear to remind you of your mortality. But it also holds you back from greatness.

So fear must be conquered or fear will conquer you.

To conquer our fears, we need courage.

And courage is a muscle, you have to expose yourself to fear and to dangerous circumstances to develop courage.

Otherwise the muscle atrophies and you stay a loser.

Boldness and courage are the traits of a winner.

There is no victory without risk and taking risk is by itself an audacious task.

Most humans are risk averse, they don't like to take risks, especially big risks.

They like the safe and predictable.

But what's safe and predictable is boring, it leads to a mundane life.

It leaves you longing for something more...

Even if you succeeded within the systems of the average and the ordinary, you will just be the most average person.

There is nothing fun about that.

You must be the exception to the rule.

Perhaps it's adventure that you long for or perhaps its the glory of being on top of the world.

Neither of these audacious tasks can be even attempted if you're not bold enough or courageous enough.

That is why I emphasise the traits of boldness and courage again and again because they really are that important.

This has to be trained. Even if you get really good at it you have to keep putting the reps in.

Because like I said, it is a muscle.

If you wanna grow a muscle you keep exposing it to more weight until it adapts and then you increase the weight.

If you want a muscle to not grow, you don't train it.

So in short, you can either be paralysed by all of your fears.

or you can use your fears as resistance to train your courage.

Do with this knowledge what you will.

See ya next week.

Ichigo... do you know how I hate rain?

And it rains in this world, too.

If your heart is troubled, the skies will become cloudy.

If you grieve, it will rain ever so easily.

I wonder if you can understand...

the fear of being rained on in this lonely world...

To stop that rain, I shall lend you any strength, any power.

If you just have faith in me, I will not allow any rain to fall upon this world.

Trust me, Ichigo. As long as I am here, you'll never fight alone.

-Zangetsu, from Bleach