Authored CAPF Paper II precis exercise on the relationship between courage and fear, with an original passage and a one-third model precis
Authored practice. The passage below is original, written for this wiki, not a verbatim previous-year question. Reduce it to about one-third of its length in your own words, third person, neutral, one connected paragraph, with a title and a stated word count.
Courage is widely misunderstood as the absence of fear, as though the brave person felt nothing while the coward trembled. The truth is almost the reverse. The person who feels no fear in the face of danger is not brave but either ignorant of the danger or indifferent to his own survival, and neither is admirable. Real courage belongs to the one who feels fear fully, who knows exactly what he risks, and who acts rightly in spite of it. Fear, in this sense, is not the enemy of courage but its raw material, the thing courage works upon. A soldier under fire, a doctor in an epidemic, an ordinary person standing up to a bully, each is afraid, and each acts anyway because something matters more than the fear. This is why courage cannot be inherited or bought; it must be practised, built through small acts of facing what one would rather avoid, until the habit of acting despite fear becomes part of one's character. The brave are not the unafraid; they are the masters of their fear.
Reduce the passage to roughly one-third (about 55 to 60 words), in your own words, in one connected paragraph, in the third person and a neutral tone, with a title and a word count at the end.
Title: Courage as the Mastery of Fear
Courage is wrongly thought to be the absence of fear; in truth the fearless are merely ignorant or reckless. Real courage means feeling fear, knowing the risk, and acting rightly despite it, as a soldier or doctor does. Fear is thus the raw material of courage, and courage is built through repeated practice in facing what one would rather avoid. (59 words)