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    Growth is Pain

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    1–2 minutes

    To want to grow is to embrace pain.

    Growing requires stretching, breaking, and failing so that you become more. Growth can be forced upon you by external circumstances, which are never as kind as taking it upon yourself to start the journey.

    A little pain for a little growth everyday seems like no pain, it can even feel like pleasure, while all the pain all at once can crush us.

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    Discontent Drives Innovation?

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    1–2 minutes

    They say "discontent drives innovation" and our willingness to creatively engage in the world is to fix it, to make it better.
    Yet, this rings hollow, not accounting for the creative play of children and contented adults. It conveniently ignores that creativity often comes not from desperation, but from quiet stability that allows curiosity to flourish.