Our species has only experienced constant comfort for a small fraction of its time on Earth, leading to new challenges arising from our insatiable drive for pleasure and comfort. In the past, living in environments of scarcity prevented overindulgence, but in today's world of abundance, overindulgence is a constant threat. The clash between our insatiable drive for comfort and the abundance of comforts in the modern world creates comfort creep, where new comforts become necessary, displacing old ones.
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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