Can you teach courage?

Do we need to look at the animal kingdom to understand that courage can be taught?

I believe we do because if we look at eagles you will find an interesting scenario;

• After the eaglets get to a certain maturity, their life changes due to the mother’s actions!
• One day the mother eagle comes back to the nest, with no food in her beak, and she hovers over the nest. She is demonstrating that the wings on the babies’ backs have a useful function because of course eagles were meant to fly.
• Eagles have to be taught, and that’s the mother’s job. So first she just demonstrates.
• The next thing she does is comes into the nest and pushes a little one closer to the edge of the nest.
• Then the mother pushes the little one out of the nest, and the eaglet falls down the face of the cliff, but the mother eagle catches the little one on her back, then flies up and deposits the eaglet back in the nest. The mother bird continues this exercise over and over again.
• The mother eagle does that because those little birds were made to fly, and they don’t know it, so she is going to teach them something they don’t know.

This leads me to this quote that sadly many people can’t comprehend; ‘May you always have the courage to spread your wings and fly.’

What can you do today that will cause you to gain more courage, so that you can spread your winds and fly?