Avoid Comfort. Seek pain... it’s how we make progress

We are designed to seek comfort. It is our biological destiny. In today's modern life this is easier than it has even been in all of human history.

I can push a button and a car arrives to pick me up for a relatively low cost in a short period of time.

I have literally all of human history's knowledge and information in my pocket at all times basically anytime during the day. I never have to be bored again. 

These are comforts.

We know this is true in the micro-level we tell ourselves the mantra... no pain no gain. Do the work. Go one more.

All of that stuff we associate with sports and competition. It's coded into your mental awareness

This is also true on the macro level. All great human progress and expansion is a result of extreme suffering. Many died settling the west and charting the oceans and achieving our quest to land a man on the moon.

No progress comes free. We must pay in blood, sweat, and tears.