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PAIN is a four-letter word. It can Wrong. All I heard for such a long it does not only eat you up

paralyze you or it can redeem you. time was wrong. Most of us develop physically, it does eat you I don't blame anyone who has

It can entangle you in tits web of this dangerous misconception emotionally too. Do you enjoy the b e c o m e f r u s t r a t e d a n d

complexity or at the same time it about success, that the journey to struggle and the pain? Does it disillusioned with the working

can set you free through its success needs to be painful or else make you inspired and energised, world. It is a huge disappointment

expanse of simplicity. Many it would not be termed as success. excited and powerful? Or, do you to grow up and realize that most

believe that to achieve something In fact, there are people who have feel desperate, exhausted and of what we've been taught about

great we have to struggle. And realised their dreams and quite powerless? how to be successful is bad advice.

with it we also need to endure unknowingly they surrender to it We were taught "Just work hard

PAIN Along my entrepreneurial t h i n k i n g t h a t t h e y w e r e The latter is how most people may at whatever job you get, and

journey I became immersed in this unsuccessful because of the fact feel on their journey while being in a things will work out." That's

paradigm. Everyone was talking that the journey was not painful state of chronic stress caused by the false. Working hard at your job

about how hard it is to build a enough for them. belief that they had to struggle in does not get you much. When you

business (or achieve any big order to achieve. work hard at a job where the boss

dream). I was always hearing In the normalisation and even Stress evokes the ight, ght or doesn't value your efforts, all your

stories of immense struggle, grind glamorisation of 'struggle', people freeze mode in our brains. It also hard work gets you is taken for
and the phrase 'no pain no gain'. often aren't aware of, or at least shuts down the brain's executive granted. Just working hard by

Many motivational speeches are aren't articulating the difference centre which helps us do things like itself will exhaust you and
based on this premise. between 'struggle' and 'challenge'. think of ideas, make plans and solve shorten your lifespan without any

T h e s e w o r d s a r e u s e d problems. In such a state we are benets to you. There has to be

I started to believe that my interchangeably but, the difference rendered very ineffective and long more to success than merely

struggles were a non-negotiable between them is the difference term, it is bad for our health and working hard, or millions of

part of the path I had chosen. I was between a person breaking wellbeing. So, how can struggle and people around the world would be

feeling overwhelmed, confused, through or breaking down. specially the pain associated with a lot more successful than they

exhausted, anxious, insecure and Imagine someone having tied a it. lead to success when the stress it are!

frankly, unhappy. But apparently knot on your ankle and chained causes actually shuts of the parts of We can see that there's more to

everyone feels these things on the you to a post. You spend days, our brain that are needed to career success than just hard

path to success. It's normal and weeks, even months trying to pry succeed? work -- so what's the magic

you just have to keep going, right? yourself free from the bondage, It is not struggle that we want, but ingredient? The magic ingredient
challenge. to success is not the good fortune