The Society Of Timid Souls: Or, How To Be Brave

The Society Of Timid Souls: Or, How To Be Brave

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A Journey Into The Modern Life Of An Ancient Virtue Bravery And A Quest To Understand Who Might Possess It And Howwith The Society Of Timid Souls, Or How To Be Brave, Documentary Filmmaker Polly Morland Sets Out To Investigate Bravery, A Quality That She Has Always Felt She Lacked. The Book Takes Inspiration From A Vividly Eccentric, And Radical, Selfhelp Group For Stagefrightened Performers In 1940S Manhattan, Which Coincided With The Terrifying Height Of World War Ii And Was Called The Society Of Timid Souls. Seventy Years Later, As Anxiety About Everything From Terrorism To Economic Meltdown Continues, Morland Argues That Courage Has Become A Virtue In Crisis. We Are, She Says, All Timid Souls Now.Despite A Career In Which She Has Filmed In Rebelheld Colombian Jungles And At The Edge Of Balkan Mass Graves, Interviewing Convicted Murderers, Drugtraffickers, And Terrorists, Morland Herself Has Never Felt Brave. Often, The Very Reverse. So She Sets Out To Discover How And Why Courage Is Achieved In An Age Of Anxiety And Whether It Might Even Be Learned. Drawing On Her Interviews And Encounters With Soldiers And Civilians, Bullfighters And Bigwave Surfers, Dissidents Fighting For Freedom And Cancer Patients Fighting For Their Lives, Morland Examines Bravery Across The Spectrum: From The First Childhood Act Of Defiance By Bernard Lafayette, A Leader Of The Civil Rights Movement Who Later Faced Down The Kkk In Alabama, Or The Reflexive Willtosurvive Of Vjollca Berisha, A Kosovo Albanian Who Endured A Massacre By Playing Dead Among The Bodies Of Her Own Family, To The Small Acts Of Everyday Bravery That Quietly Punctuate Our Lives, In Schoolyards, Labor Wards, And Hospices The World Over.Along The Way, Morland Draws Attention To Some Of The Myths Of Bravery That Have Been Conjured And Perpetuated Over Time And Argues That, Often, Courage Exists As Much In The Telling As In The Doing. At Once An Exploration Of What Bravery Means And A Chronicle Of The Author'S Personal Journey Among Those Who Embody It, The Society Of Timid Souls Is A Profound, Approachable Meditation On This Most Valued And Mysterious Of Human Qualities. In Setting Off On The Trail Of The Lionhearted, Polly Morland Finds Out A Great Deal About What Makes Some Of Us Extraordinary, And What Of The Extraordinary We All Share.

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