“Excellence is the capacity to take pain”

pain is good. pain is necessary. pain is uncomfortable. it’s not only physical, its mental, its internal, its silent, its loud, its hidden, its conspicuous. but learning to tolerate the highest level of pain will make you more composed in relevant situations.

 “I think that if you don’t experience real fear from time to time, you don’t experience real danger and other things, then your mind just creates fears out of nothing,” Alex Honnold

pain, fear, and anxiety are invaluable to a strong mind. the physical world is the best place to train for fear and pain; that way the manmade constructions don’t phase you as much