人避免不了痛苦，尤其是在追求雄心勃勃的目标时。不管你相信与否，如果以正确的态度对待痛苦，感到痛苦就是你的幸运，因为这是一个信号——你需要寻找解决方案以便继续前进。如果你能形成一种条件反射，面对精神痛苦时能够自动地反思痛苦，而不是躲避痛苦，你就能够快速地学习和进化。直面那些由问题、错误和弱点导致的痛苦现实，会大幅提高你的效率，我相信，只要你看到了这种做法的好处，就不会再想以其它方式行事了。你只需要养成这样做的习惯。
大多数人在痛苦时不愿反思，而一旦痛苦消失，他们的注意力就会转移，所以他们难以通过反思得到教益。如果你在痛苦时就能好好反思（这个要求也许太高），这非常好。如果你能够记得在痛苦消失后进行反思，这也很有价值。


你面临的挑战将会考验你，强化你。如果你没有经历过失败，就说明你没有努力突破极限，而如果你不努力突破极限，你就不能最大限度地挖掘自己的潜能。努力突破极限有时失败有时成功，但总能带来益处。虽然这种做法不一定适合所有人，但假如适合你，那将会是一种美妙的体验，令人沉迷。生活不可避免地会带给你这样的考验，而你愿不愿意不断去尝试，取决于你自己。


如果你选择在这条常常很痛苦的个人进化之路上拼搏，你将自然而然地不断“更上一层楼”。当你越过包围你的事物，到达了更高一层的境界，你就会发现，其实那些事物并没有你近看时所以为的那么重要。生活中的大多数东西都不过是“同类情况的重演”。你的层次越高，就能更加有效地应对现实，塑造符合你目标的结果。而曾经看起来无比复杂的东西，也会变得简单。

There is no avoiding pain, especially if you’re going after ambitious goals. Believe it or not, you are lucky to feel that kind of pain if you approach it correctly, because it is a signal that you need to find solutions so you can progress. If you can develop a reflexive reaction to psychical pain that causes you to reflect on it rather than avoid it, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving. After seeing how much more effective it is to face the painful realities that are caused by your problems, mistakes, and weaknesses, I believe you won’t want to operate any other way. It’s just a matter of getting in the habit of doing it.

Most people have a tough time reflecting when they are in pain and they pay attention to other things when the pain passes, so they miss out on the reflections that provide the lessons. If you can reflect well while you’re in pain (which is probably too much to ask), great. But if you can remember to reflect after it passes, that’s valuable too.

The challenges you face will test and strengthen you. If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential. Though this process of pushing your limits, of sometimes failing and sometimes breaking through—and deriving benefits from both your failures and your successes—is not for everyone, if it is for you, it can be so thrilling that it becomes addictive. Life will inevitably bring you such moments, and it’ll be up to you to decide whether you want to go back for more.

If you choose to push through this often painful process of personal evolution, you will naturally “ascend” to higher and higher levels. As you climb above the blizzard of things that surrounds you, you will realize that they seem bigger than they really are when you are seeing them up close; that most things in life are just “another one of those.” The higher you ascend, the more effective you become at working with reality to shape outcomes toward your goals. What once seemed impossibly complex becomes simple.
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