Editorial program
The Courage Curriculum
Fear and shame are quietly running more of your decisions than you realise.
A short, demanding stack on doing hard things on purpose — and not letting your ego drive.
- Books
- 11
- Insights
- 73
Lead article
01
Start here
The Solo Honeymoon
Laura Murphy with Bret Witter
Editor's note
Brown first. Without her, the rest reads as bravado.
Reading order
Read it like a sequence, not a shelf.
Each book earns its position by setting up the next question. Move through the stack in order, or jump to the pressure point you can name today.
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01
Laura Murphy with Bret Witter · 2026
The Solo Honeymoon
Brown reframes vulnerability as the courage move.
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02
Ryan Holiday
Ego Is the Enemy
Holiday turns obstacles into the actual path.
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03
William H. McRaven
Make Your Bed
Holiday again — on the ego that ruins all of it.
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04
Brian Tracy · 2010
No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
McRaven distills discipline into one made bed.
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05
George M. Johnson · 2020
All Boys Aren't Blue
I fought hard to fit in, but my spirit fought harder to be out.
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06
Brené Brown
Daring Greatly
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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07
Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle Is the Way
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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08
Gary John Bishop
Unf*ck Yourself
You have the life you're willing to put up with.
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09
Jocko Willink · 2017
Discipline Equals Freedom
The order you keep today buys freedom tomorrow.
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10
Robert Maurer · 2004
One Small Step Can Change Your Life
The smallest step is not a compromise when it keeps you moving.
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11
Pema Chödrön · 2001
The Places That Scare You
Stay near the edge without abandoning the heart.
Practice desk
Pair the shelf with a tool.
Reading changes thinking. Tools turn thinking into a Tuesday afternoon you actually run differently.
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