Pain Is Not a Problem. It's Proof Your Alive

0:00Successful people, this is kind of similar to what you were talking about, bad things don't come in threes. Successful people see opportunity in every failure. Normal people see failure in every opportunity. Both are right, only one gets rich. Yeah, so I was so this has been something I've been thinking about a lot, which is basically the shittiness of stuff. Um which is when you're growing in a business, it's very painful.

0:26When you're stagnating in a business and you're plateaued and you don't know what to do, it's very painful. When you're declining and you also don't know what to do, it's very painful. And so that means that all conditions of reality are painful. And so if pain is a prerequisite for reality, then it means it's just a signal that we are alive. And so in thinking about that, rather than pain is a problem, it is a signal that I'm breathing. And then becomes irrelevant.

0:58>> How do you ensure that you're not suffering unnecessarily? You know, pain can be a useful signal. It can tell you to move away from certain things that are suboptimal. Yeah. I am I probably relatively contrary in views on this. Um but just even the judgment on pain, I relatively reject. Just like pain is good, pain is bad. I mean, in the in the gym to give the a gym gym example, they found that the pain that you experience when you're going to work out, and there's a difference between like massive joint like oh, I just snapped a muscle and like just feeling bad, but feeling bad has zero correlation to your performance in the gym.

1:41And so I remember reading that for the Olympic, you know, weight teams, they talked about that and I was like, oh, well, if it has no correlation, then it's almost irrelevant and I can just keep living my life. And so I think the ultimate version of the resilience that you were referencing earlier is rather than you know, in the beginning you're like, I feel bad, and then you think that that should weigh on the decision of whether you do the thing that you're supposed to do. And then you start realizing that you can do the thing even though you don't feel good about it. And you start hypertrophying it, but I think the ultimate version of the hypertrophy, when the muscle becomes a tendon or it just becomes fused, is when you don't even consider how you feel. It's just not a thought. You just keep You just do it.

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