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Pain + Reflections = Progress

The challenges you face will test and strengthen you. If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential.

There is no avoiding pain, especially if you’re going after ambitious goals.

Believe it or not, you are lucky to feel that kind of pain if you approach it correctly, because it is a signal that you need to find solutions so you can progress. If you can develop a reflexive reaction to psychic pain that causes you to reflect on it rather than avoid it, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

In other words, pain is an important signal that there is something to be learned, and if you reflect on your pain well, you will almost always learn something important.

– Dalio, Ray. Author, Principles: Life and Work