Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure - Why Comfort is Crippling You

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A society addicted to comfort is too weak to fight off a tyrannical government, especially when it offers comfort

I'm in construction. I consider any construction worker as a under paid athlete. Truth.

Not necessarily pain. Just restraint and discipline. Control over your desires will free you.

The feeling you get when you meet your basic needs after hard work, a cool breeze on a hot day under a shade tree. That's when I feel happy.

Getting in shape was worth every second of pain

No greatness ever came by comfort.

I at 38 was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer last month. Many friends reach out asking how im doing and are in surprise when I say I'm doing great. I've always been active but since my diagnoses I've increased and pushed my physical activities to point never before. I've also come to peace with any outcome this may bring. This video resonates well with me today

Was called too old at 50! Started training in crumbling garage lifting rocks doing pushups on paint cans pullups on beams got ripped af at 53 years old!!!

been saying this for years, we live in so much comfort that we can't even stay consistent between what we want and what we do. Our thoughts are influenced to seek comfort even against our own interests. People become incapacitated by choosing between two goals, long term success & happiness and short term comfort/entertainment. The more we reside in a space where everything is easy the harder it becomes to resist the temptation to stay.

A few years ago I got tired of being fat. I joined an exercise group (TOPS), started eating properly, walking 3 to 5 miles every day.... I lost 55 pounds and arrived at my goal. It wasn't easy but I did it.

100% you can experience good pain from exercise or horrible pain from a sedentary lifestyle. Movement is key. ❤

Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.

Comfort is a kind of submission before authority; pain: a rebellion, a fire, a storm to overthrow existing circumstances.

It takes the highest level of discipline to abstain by choice when everything is within arms reach, especially long term like eating only once a day, I did it for 7 months and it was truly an eye opener, to be eating less than half what I used to and still be able to maintain the same level of activity is incredible, how little you actually need and how efficient our bodies are. I really need to go back to one meal a day, it simplified my life, halved my food bill and got me to a healthier weight oh and you look forward to and appreciate what ever your having for dinner rather than not knowing what you want because your bored of every meal option.

One of my friends on anti-depressants asked me if I was taking any meds because I went through some bad things in the past few years. I told him I refuse to take anything and he got upset at me. He got his wife on to SSRI's and he strongly believes in medications for anything that causes pain. Years ago, we went on a trip and we both got stomach bugs. He took all kinds of anti-diarrhea meds, antacids and Tylenol. I was really sick for a day but let it run it's nasty course without any meds. It was disgusting and painful but my body got through what it needed to and pushed out everything it needed to. He stayed mildly sick for about 2 weeks. Repressing his illness with medications but not releasing it out because he was scared of/avoiding pain. I agree with the message of this video. The more you try to avoid pain, the more you'll have to contend with down the road. I'd rather feel the pain as it happens. Confront, question and learn from it until it builds a callous on my brain.

This came up while im pondering the importance of leg day. Thank you for the inspiration to not skip

Been saying this for decades. Noticing reality on reality's terms and sharing that with others just gets you ostracized.

“Hes no good at being uncomfortable, so he keeps on staying exactly the same” -Fiona Apple. Extraordinary machine.

One way I've thought about it is that it's best to acknowledge that pain and discomfort will come, it's an inevitability. The more you meet it on your terms, doing the hard (but beneficial!) things: fasting, exercising, meditating, working hard, etc., consciously suffering as a deliberate choice, the less you have to suffer later while having no choice about it (poverty, disease, stress). I think the former is much preferable to the latter. That being said, I'm not a fan of seeking pain purely for its own sake in some kind of reverse-hedonism, but rather accepting the pain of engaging in actions which are both beneficial or productive as well as difficult and uncomfortable, motivated primarily not by greater enjoyment of carnal pleasures, but rather to act responsibly and beneficially toward our family and other loved ones... to truly honor and appreciate the life we have been given by acting in accordance with its highest well being. I believe this requires that both pleasure and pain be accepted with a certain humility, but that neither be primary ends of themselves.