Why Ritualized Discomfort and Overcoming Adversity is Critical to Human Development

Continuing from yesterday's episode, I share more ideas that I've learned from Lex Fridman's interview with Daniel Smachtenberger. In this entry, I go into the concept of Ritualized Discomfort and talk about why optimizing for comfort is dangerous and why individualized, zero-sum success is also dangerous. We need voluntary, communal struggle. I also talk about language.