Small Brave Things

About this book

Small Brave Things takes the vast, intimidating idea of courage and cuts it down to a size a real person can actually use. Its argument is simple and freeing: the brave acts that determine the shape of your life are almost never the dramatic ones. They are small, private, and undramatic, and precisely because they are small, they can be practised, deliberately, like scales, until courage stops feeling like a trait you lack and starts feeling like a muscle you own.