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Originally Posted by LucrativeSid
And you don't care about losing anything? For you then, it must all be about gain, like the fun of finishing the chess game even though you might die. So maybe the only thing you'd hate to lose is the inability to live freely. (Death excluded.)
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If I were wheelchair bound I'd ride it down a flight of stairs.
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I like your responses because they are different. I'm just not sure I completely understand.
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It's pretty simple really. By the dictionary definition, courage can't exist by default.
Or well... not that it can't exist, just that it never does. Risking death like the example I mentioned... the whole point of doing that is for a thrill. If it wasn't then that's either because the person didn't know they were at risk (hence it's not a thrill, and not courageous), or wanted to die.
A thrill involves choosing the less psychically painful of two options: boredom and safety or risk and danger?
If you choose safe, then you'd kick yourselves for the rest of your lives for not doing it.
If you choose dangerous and they live, then you get what you wanted.
If you die, then you don't care because you can't care because you're dead.
If you only maim yourself, you're an incompetent who can't commit, and don't count.
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If you want more in life, and you're afraid of going for it, that's stupidity and negligence? Is that because it's stupid to be afraid of something that will only make your life better? Have you ever wanted to do something that you were afraid to do for some reason?
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Of course. And it was stupid of me to be afraid.
Don't think I hold myself to a different standard...
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Yes, I'm an ENTP who's looking for some kind of magic thing.  Are you saying it doesn't exist? 
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It took me a while to get over it too.