The Fool, The Coward, or The Courageous


Amar Pandit
A respected entrepreneur with 25+ years of Experience, Amar Pandit is the Founder of several companies that are making a Happy difference in the lives of people. He is currently the Founder of Happyness Factory, a world-class online investment & goal-based financial planning platform through which he aims to help every Indian family save and invest wisely. He is very passionate about spreading financial literacy and is the author of 4 bestselling books (+ 2 more to release in 2020), 8 Sketch Books, Board Game and 700 + columns.

October 17, 2025 | 2 Minute Read
Courage is not the absence of fear.
It is the ability to act in the presence of fear.
Think about it.
If you feel no fear, you are a fool.
If you let fear rule you, you are a coward.
But if you feel fear and still go ahead, you are courageous.
Every financial professional faces this moment.
The fear of calling that prospect.
The fear of asking for bigger clients.
The fear of moving away from old systems.
The fear of building something new.
Fear shows up everywhere.
When markets are volatile.
When clients demand answers you don’t have.
When you know it’s time to change, but change feels risky.
Fear is not the problem.
Fear is human.
The problem is what you do with it.
Do you freeze?
Do you retreat into your comfort zone?
Or do you move forward anyway?
Courage is making that difficult call even when your voice shakes.
Courage is asking tough questions because you know your client needs to hear them.
Courage is leaving behind what is safe to pursue what will make you better.
No business grows without courage.
No professional becomes world-class without stepping into uncertainty.
Everything you want: better clients, deeper relationships, higher enterprise value, sits on the other side of fear.
Remember the Hrithik Roshan advertisement (Dar Ke Aage Jeet Hai), which essentially says the same thing (Victory is Ahead of Fear).
The question is not whether you feel fear.
The question is whether you will act despite it.
Because the world does not reward the fearless.
It rewards the courageous.
Ask yourself today: who are you among the three?
The fool, the coward, or the one who dares to move forward even when afraid?
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