Stuart Evans

Table selection also determines some of your happiness. The "keeping up with the Joneses" effect is a symptom of table selection. If you compare yourself to your neighbors or people who are "near" you in whatever you index your life on, you will find countless ways to make yourself feel insignificant or behind. 

Pain is a good sign. A rite of passage on your way to the promise land... Failure, pain, and fear is the price for being the Warrior in the arena