Why I Write About Pain and Pain Tolerance So Often
This morning I got an email asking me why I write about pain and pain tolerance so often. This email was in response to my article yesterday Current Pain Tolerance Does Not Dictate Future Pain Tolerance. That article was my 25th article covering an aspect of pain and pain tolerance.
So, yes, it’s true. I write about pain tolerance often. Not the pain from trauma, injury, and disease. That is a separate category of pain I’m not qualified to write about. The pain I focus on is the pain one must experience to achieve personal growth, conditioning, and difficult goals. This type of pain is the result of discipline, repetition, fatigue, boredom, and fear.
When it comes to this pain, having a high pain tolerance is extremely beneficial. It allows you to overcome obstacles, be resilient, work longer each day towards your goals, push your body harder when training, and stay positive under negative conditions. Simply stated, having a high pain tolerance for discipline, repetition, fatigue, boredom, and fear is a performance enhancer and a success differentiator. Moreover, having a high pain tolerance for this type of pain is a mental skill not a physical skill.
This is why I focus on pain tolerance so much. Dealing with the pain of discipline, repetition, fatigue, boredom, and fear is fundamental for success. As a result, I must make sure each one of my clients are self-aware about their current pain tolerance and know how to increase it. With each article I write on pain my goal is to add more clarity to help with these two things.