Exploring how our quest for comfort can ironically lead to discomfort and health issues, the chapter emphasizes the significance of intentional discomfort and exercise to combat the negative impacts of comfort creep on our well-being.
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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