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CHAPTER FIVE

EVERYDAY COURAGE

efore I discovered the #5SecondRule, if you had asked me to give you
examples of courage, I would have given you a list of history makers. I would
never have said that courage is what it takes some days to get out of bed, speak to
your boss, pick up the phone, or step on a scale. I would have told you that courage
is a word used to describe acts of huge bravery.

Courageous people, in my view, were the Nobel Prize winners Malala Yousafzai,
Leymah Gbowee, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela, and Elie
Wiesel. I would have thought about Winston Churchill and Britain standing up to
fight against Nazi Germany, Rosa Parks standing up for her right to keep her seat