We need both pain AND pleasure to accomplish grand things in life!
For example:
- Childbirth
- Weight lifting and muscle building: After taxing your muscles, you will feel “good pain”— an indicator that your muscles are building and growing, on the road to become stronger! The pleasure of a good workout, or the pleasure of great attempts in powerlifting.
- Love: We need both pain and pleasure with our soulmate to grow stronger.
- Pain— fright in street photography. Pleasure: the payoff associated with making great photos.
- Entrepreneurship: Pain as fear, difficulty, and uncertainty. Pleasure as forward progress.
Don’t be afraid of pain, and don’t focus on pleasure
The end goal isn’t pleasure for the sake of it. Perhaps pain and pleasure are the yin-yang— we need both.
ERIC