Avoiding discomfort

Avoiding discomfort creates more discomfort

The thing that people do where they avoid discomfort - it sounds ridiculous - but it just creates more discomfort. You don’t realize that, in embracing discomfort, in forcing yourself to do something very uncomfortable that you can control, like an ice bath, like a sauna, like a run, like a workout, you are eliminating another form of discomfort. I torture myself physically. I am always working out. I am always exhausted. I am always taking ice baths. I am always doing something. I never have a day where there is not some kind of struggle. If I have a day where I just lay around, I would be like, this is weird. Its one of the things that I have to do on vacation - when I get up in the morning, whenever on vacation, the first thing I do is workout. I’m like, I got to do this. Otherwise, I am not going to be able to enjoy this time off with my family. I got to get up before everybody else and I got to work out hard. - Joe Rogan