Discouragement Is Discouraging! What's The Answer?

"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing." —Vincent Van Gogh

NO COURAGE!

For starters, let me see if I can break down the extremely difficult task of defining ‘discouragement’. Make sure you’re paying attention, because this is Einstein stuff here. ‘Dis’ means without. So, essentially, dis-couragement is the absence or lack of courage. Being without courage. Boom! I know, that was a major revelation for a lot of y…