Sublime

must suffer physical pain to build stronger bone and muscle, one must suffer emotional pain to develop greater emotional resilience, a stronger sense of self, increased compassion, and a generally happier life.

the problem is that this unrefined cultural understanding fails to recognize the limitations of the association between “pain” and “gain”.

We discussed that if you truly want to get better, then you have to want your workouts to be hard, to be painful. It makes no sense to wish away the difficult once you realize that it is essential to your improvement. In order to run a personal best, one must be willing to hurt. If you are wishing away the pain, you are also wishing away the thing

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT