Pain Vs Pleasure: What helps you grow in life?
Ashwin More ????
??Building Everything about Lean Six Sigma (EALSS Academy & Consulting) | ??Developstrongmind
Pain and pleasure are two of the most powerful motivators in life.
They drive us to take action, make decisions, and ultimately shape who we become.
While both can be beneficial in their own ways, it is often the pain that helps us to grow and develop as individuals.
In life, pain is inevitable. Whether physical or mental, we all deal with pain daily. Pain and suffering are part of human life. But...
?? Pain is super underrated, while pleasure is overrated.
?? Everyone loves pleasure and hates pain.
?? But the real growth in life comes through pain.
?? All the things that give us short-term pain are actually useful for our growth in the long-term
? Examples -
1?? Doing 1hr exercise daily is painful but gives you huge health benefits in the long term.
2?? Learning a new skill is painful (when the difficulty level increase) but gives you huge benefits in your career in the long term.
3?? Following discipline in your work is painful but gives you huge returns in the long term.
?? All the things that give us short-term or instant pleasure are not valuable for our growth in the long term. (exceptions are there)
? Examples -
1?? Eating high-sugar content food gives you instant pleasure but affects negatively your health in the long term.
2?? All the time-consuming funny and irrelevant content on the internet gives you instant pleasure but negatively affects your thought process in the long term.
? So every time you have to choose between pain and pleasure, and your choice will decide your results in the long term.
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2 年The change itself. Everything else is influential in nature. They are reactions to the action. These are merely emotional triggers arising from the environmental stimuli. The stimuli itself serves as the prompt that forms a complex web of motivational factors - each addressing a specific that calls us to act. Our emotions therefore, are a secondary response to a more direct, underlying need. Pain and pleasure both arise from an unconscious autonomic trigger within the central nervous system. Our motivational factors, when driven by pain, serve to avoid the feeling, or suppress the pain signal. This leads to further pain, suffering, and struggle, as the autonomic system stored the imprint of the action - conditioning us with the belief that pain is to be overcome. You can become aware of this interaction, yet the outcome results from the direct underlying need that causes the pain. Pain arises from the void we feel when the need goes unaddressed.
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2 年2 sides of the coin, if you ask me. Pain helps us to grow and too much pleasure could in turn results in pain which will result eventually in growth, physically, mentally, financially, emotionally and spiritually. Both surely drive us to take some form of action and Action results in results. Happy Saturday Ashwin More