Is Google’s Product Strategy Dumb, Brave or Both? Ryan Holiday. Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:10 PM UTC. offthemedia-1. There's no question we live in one of the harshest media environments in history.

Rather, they must be brave enough to take risks against their own incessant fixation on the outcome. Advertisement “I’m afraid of looking dumb; I’m afraid of making mistakes,” she revealed.

When people call someone "brave," I trust that they mean it as a compliment almost 100 percent of the time. But the problem is, sometimes, this word is used to describe things that should be ...

So dumb.” While Trump expressed support for the Ukrainian people and called the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a “brave man,” he also noted his ties with other leading autocrats.