Discover Your Courage Type.

Your courage has a pattern. It’s one of nine.

Find yours in 4 minutes.

The conversation you keep postponing. The call only you can make. The chance you’re not taking.

Each one takes courage before anything can happen.

You already make brave decisions. But when courage counts, your body answers before you do: a first response, then a follow-through.

You’ve run the same pattern your whole life. You’ve just never seen it.

Until now.

Your Courage Type is your exact pattern: measured, explained, and yours to work with.

A beautifully simple map for navigating your personal and work life better.

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The Courage Type by Scott Simon

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  • Know Your Patterns
  • Catch Yourself in the Moment
  • Say the Hard Thing
  • Stay Steady Under Pressure
  • Make Faster, Cleaner Decisions
  • Build Courage That Compounds
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The Nine Courage Types

Which One Are You?

Each of us has our own way of doing courage. Know your pattern, and you can catch yourself in the moment — and see ways forward you’d never pick on your own.

fightfight

The Vanguard

First into the hard thing, and still there when it gets harder. All-in, by instinct.

fightflight

The Striker

Moves fast and direct, then resets to find a cleaner angle rather than grinding it out.

fightfreeze

The Catalyst

Sparks the reaction, then holds steady while everything moves around them

flightfight

The Tactician

Gives ground to find the angle, then commits without flinching

flightflight

The Navigator

Reads the terrain and routes around the threat

flightfreeze

The Strategist

Pulls back, sees the whole board, moves only when it’s right

freezefight

The Guardian

Still and watchful, until something that matters is threatened

freezeflight

The Diplomat

Composed under pressure, reads the room, exits on their own terms

freezefreeze

The Anchor

The still, steady point while everything else moves

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The science

The Science Behind Your Courage Type

When it counts, what do you actually do? Not what you wish you did — what you actually do.

There are an infinite number of ways to be courageous, but only three ways your body responds. You may already know them: fight, flight, and freeze.

Here’s what’s been hiding in plain sight for decades: those responses come in sequence. Your body answers twice: once when the hard thing appears, and again when it’s time to act. First response, then second response.

That means there are three ways to begin — fight, flight, freeze — and three ways to follow through. That’s where the nine Courage Types you just met come from.

Every time courage is asked of you — every time you’re pushed out of your comfort zone and your body starts to rebel — you run the same cascade.

No one has ever measured it — until now.

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The Courage Type by Scott Simon

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A team leaning into a hard conversation at work
A hand reaching for the microphone in a full room
Two hands meeting in a high five
A woman mid workout, holding her nerve
A leap caught mid-air against the sky
A climber in red on a snowy summit

Your Assessment Report Includes:

Your Master Type, named, and the cascade that produced it
Your Courage Sub-Types: work, love, and health
How your patterns show up when risk rises
Where your courage is strong and where you need to grow it
One next courageous step, matched exactly to your profile
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Nine Courage Types

Your Courage Type Doesn’t Stay In One Corner Of Your Life.

The same cascade that decides whether you speak up in the boardroom decides whether you say the hard thing at the kitchen table.

  • Career and Business: The pitch, the hire, the hard call — the thing you’d say in the meeting if it didn’t take courage to say it. When you know your pattern, you stay steady under pressure and make faster, cleaner decisions.
  • Love and Relationships: The conversation you’ve been putting off — with a partner, a parent, an old friend. Meaningful relationships require courage, and the hardest sentence is the first one. Your type gives you that starting point.
  • Health and body: The checkup, the habit, the rest you won’t let yourself take. Courage isn’t always loud — sometimes it’s the quiet decision to begin. Begin where your type shows you, and you build courage that compounds.
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The Courage Type by Scott Simon

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Scott Simon

Who built this

Meet Scott Simon.

Scott Simon is the founder of Scare Your Soul, a global courage movement, and has spent more than 15 years teaching audiences around the world what it takes to live courageously. He has delivered keynotes and led courage experiences for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, Logitech, Ritz-Carlton, Nestlé, Progressive Insurance, SXSW, Cleveland Clinic and many more.

He is the author of Scare Your Soul: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life and The Book of Questions: Courage, sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Questions, which has sold more than five million copies in 35 languages.

The Courage Type assessment distills those years on stages and with high performing companies into four minutes: the first instrument to measure the pattern you run when courage counts.

3 Simple, Intentional Steps to Discover Your Courage Type

01

Take the Courage Type Assessment.

16 thoughtful questions that reveal what you actually do when courage is asked of you — including the patterns you don’t even know you’re running. About 4 minutes from start to finish.

02

Read Your Personalized Courage Type Profile.

Know your patterns: where they serve you, where they’ve stopped serving you, and how to catch yourself in the moment. A lot of your life will suddenly make sense.

03

Take Your Next Courageous Step.

One clear act of courage, matched to your type, whether that’s saying the hard thing, making the call, or taking the leap. It’s your first rep in building courage that compounds.

Everything you love was once something that scared you. The person at your side. The work that inspires you. The thing you built. Trace any of it back to its origin and you find the same moment: a step you took with no guarantee.

You took that step. Now take the next one.

Four minutes from now, your journey has a starting point.

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The Courage Type by Scott Simon

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About 4 minutes · 16 revealing questions · Nine Courage Types