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EPISODE · May 9, 2024 · 19 MIN

Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure – Why Comfort is Crippling You

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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 […] The post Pursue Pain, Not Pleasure – Why Comfort is Crippling You first appeared on Academy of Ideas.

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