Emotional Endurance
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Emotional Endurance
how to live with the discomfort of learning (instead of running from it)
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It’s possible, instead, to make a game of gradually increasing your capacity for discomfort, like weight training at the gym. When you expect that an action will be accompanied by feelings of irritability, anxiety or boredom, it’s usually possible to let that feeling arise and fade, while doing the action anyway. The rewards come so quickly, in... See more
theguardian.com • Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
To build endurance in anything (running, an enduring brand) you need to risk resistance and failure, and figure out how to get through it.
… entering a particularly painful part of a hard run, I like to remind myself that these feelings are both temporary and normal. This makes the pain feel less all consuming, because it’s contained into something
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