The Necessity of Suffering — The Motivation Report
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The Necessity of Suffering

March 6, 2020 · 22 min

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Suffering is not the enemy of happiness, it is the condition that makes happiness possible.

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In this episode

  • Why eliminating suffering would not actually improve your life
  • How bad days give meaning and contrast to the good ones
  • The difference between avoiding pain and learning to handle it
  • Practical tools for facing suffering instead of running from it

About this episode

Is it possible to entirely eliminate suffering from your life? And even if you could, what would your life ACTUALLY look like? We tend to think that finding happiness or peace within our lives requires the elimination suffering. But if there were no bad day, how could we know and appreciate the good days? Suffering isn't simply a byproduct of bad decisions, it is a necessity in life. Unfortunately, you will suffer. But if you can find the tools to help you properly deal with that pain, only then you will come into a place of knowing how to be truly happy. If you can't hide from pain, why not learn to fight it?
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