“The capacity to tolerate minor discomfort is a superpower,” Oliver Burkeman wrote. “ It’s shocking to realize how readily we set aside even our greatest ambitions in life merely to avoid easily tolerable levels of unpleasantness. It is possible, instead, to make a game of gradually increasing your capacity for discomfort, like weight training at a gym. The rewards come so quickly that it soon becomes the more appealing way to live.”
Oliver Burkeman and Lin Pardey
A Required Skill to Go Voyaging
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This sounds like mountaineering and ice climbing. Many of the big routes are best described as suffer-fests. Or as Tom Pattey, a famous British climber once said, “Ice climbing is like fun, only completely different.” Or Greg Child said, “It don’t got to be fun to be fun.”
Hi Drew,
Great sayings that I had not heard before. I could substitute ocean racing for ice climbing.
Sounds a bit like a spiritual principle to me. Thanks for including this.