From Pain to Success
“That which is painful in the beginning but ends in joy, that’s the true joy” — Gita
Introduction
Nature’s laws are fasinating to study. Have you observed how achieving something worthwhile is always difficult? Achievement and difficulty go hand in hand. We rarely hear anyone succeed with ‘ease’. Why is it so?
The simple answer is if it was easy everyone would do so. If everyone succeeded easily, success would be common place and not valued at all.
Nature is wired in such a way that Power, Resources, Wealth are all difficult to achieve. Anything of importance always comes through a painful process.
Pain is necessary
Nature uses pain as a filter mechanism so as to create a rarity of success. Rarity makes success valued. So those who are looking to achieve something should understand that pain is necessary and inevitable part of the package.
The question now is how to deal with this inevitability?
The landscape
Pain is usually of two main types -
- Physical pain
- Mental pain
When we stub our toe on the table, that is a physical pain. When we freeze looking at a huge task at hand, that is mental pain.
Learning to handle mental pain is often the easiest and the most important to any achievement.
Make pain easy
In the book, Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author shows how ability and challenge has to evenly matched for productivity to happen.
More ability than challenge leads to boredom.
Bigger challenge than ability leads to the pain of frustration. This is the common impediment to success.
The solution to this is cutting the challenge down to the level of ability, just a little more, to keep it exciting. A huge challenge is minified to lean chunks that could be handled easily. Divide and conquer.
Conclusion
Even though Nature makes pain inevitable in the path to success, it also provides us with a way to easily handle it. Quite a paradox.
Minify Smallify Go Lean!!
