The Beauty of Discomfort: How What We Avoid Is What We Need

by Amanda Lang

Truly sucessful people don't merely tolerate discomfort-- the embrace it and seek it out again and again. Business founders and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, mediatation gurus and military leaders all have very different ways of coping with discomfort, but the successful among them believe that withstanding discomfort is a skill that has helped them in hugely positive ways.