What if pain is a necessary ingredient to greatness? Not something to be avoided but harnessed?

Pain as the father of all pleasure, growth and becoming?

Purposeful pain

For example, pain is a necessary ingredient of childbirth. The pain is actually a signal an accompaniment to the body‘s ability to contract and push out the baby. Certainly pain medication is a phenomenal invention, but perhaps pain is the genesis of all procreation.

Greater challenges, greater difficulties.

Why did Elon musk decide to start SpaceX and cofound Tesla after he sold PayPal and made a bunch of money? Because he didn’t want to just retire on some beach. Rather, he wanted greater challenges, and to impact humanity on a greater scale.