The kid who’s terrified of horses and signs up for lessons anyway is braver than the one who grew up on a farm.

Courage is measured against your own fear, not against the task. Somebody around horses since they were four is not being brave by getting on one, whatever it looks like from the fence, and the person whose hands are shaking is doing something genuinely difficult. The size of the act and the size of the nerve rarely match.

Stop comparing your hard things to other people’s easy ones, since the scales are different and nobody can see yours. Credit yourself for the thing that scared you, even when it looked unremarkable. And when somebody does something small with obvious effort, that is the moment worth noticing.