Factory | Pain

Don’t numb it. Name it. “Right now, I feel rejected.” “This workout hurts my lungs.” “I am scared of looking stupid.” Walk the factory floor and take inventory. Pain unnamed is pain multiplied.

What am I going to manufacture today?

Inside the Pain Factory: Why Discomfort Is Your Most Valuable Raw Material pain factory

Pain isn’t useful until it leaves the factory. You have to do something with it. Write the difficult email. Do the extra rep. Have the hard conversation. Apologize first. That’s your finished good. Don’t numb it

You don’t need to “love” pain. You just need to stop running from it. Here’s the operating manual for your pain factory: Pain unnamed is pain multiplied

Not “Why is this happening to me?” (That question keeps you on the loading dock, complaining about the shipment.)