My advice, if you run into a courage problem, is to plan ahead of time what you'll do if things don't work out - and what things not working out looks like. For

My advice, if you run into a courage problem, is to plan ahead of time what you'll do if things don't work out - and what things not working out looks like. For instance, whenever I go into any sort of business venture I know that I have a certain sum of money in reserve, and if the business looks likely to run into that money, then I end the business. I know roughly what my CV is going to look like if the business doesn't work out as well and what companies I'll hit up for jobs or what contracts I can run alongside my company to provide me with income coming out of it. IME a need for courage is often indicative of a need for planning. As for drive: My biggest drives come from a desire to be irrelevant to a problem. I get bored easily. The first six months at any job are almost invariably fantastic; learning new things. Then the new things are learned and it's time to apply what's essentially a skill to boring instances of a problem where you need just enough coms skill to get the relevant bits of info out of someone. You become a glorified parser. Which is a job for computers, not people. I feel like the latter one is the sort of insight that is highly personal though. Not sure the answer for me is the same as the answer for you.