Exploring the contrast between our ancestors' physically demanding lives and our modern world of abundance, and the challenge of balancing our instinctual drive for comfort with the conveniences of today.
In the 1st century AD, the Greek orator and philosopher Dio Chrysostom wrote: “Luxury makes pains seem even harder, and dulls and weakens one’s pleasures. For the person who is always luxuriating and never touches pain will end up unable to endure any pain at all, and also not able to feel any pleasure, not […]
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Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure – Why Comfort is Crippling You first appeared on
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