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My path toward personal growth aims toward discomfort. I'm confused; do other people not do this? If I shied away from discomfort, I would be an angry, lonely,
by kelseyfrog 2y ago
My path toward personal growth aims toward discomfort. I'm confused; do other people not do this?
If I shied away from discomfort, I would be an angry, lonely, sheltered person and exactly the opposite of who I want to become.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoSeeking discomfort is not intuitive I am perhaps less comfortable than others as a baseline. I could seek discomfort by say, listening to people eat with their mouths open, to little avail
- kelseyfrog 2y agoYou could, but is it difficult imagining situations which would be uncomfortable, and yet would also lead to personal growth?
- bawolff 2y agoI would say that personal growth often involves discomfort, but many uncomfortable things do not lead to personal growth. So seeking out just discomfort seems bad. You shouldn't instantly do something just because it is uncomfortable.
- lukan 2y agoThe question is, do you seek discomfort? Or do you want to avoid the greater discomfort of becoming a "angry, lonely, sheltered person "? I never seek discomfort. I seek the pleasure of overcoming uncomfortable obstacles.
- FollowingTheDao 2y agoI heard he sits on thumb tacks and sleeps on broken glass...
- kelseyfrog 2y agoI specifically work (along with a therapist) on increasing my distress tolerance and tolerance with being uncomfortable. The idea is that this is a transferable capability - that the ability to endure distress and discomfort in certain areas of my life are generally applicable to other areas as well.
- getlawgdon 2y agoMaybe things that you do for personal growth cause you discomfort, while another person doing those same things for growth doesn't experience the same discomfort as you?