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Pain is a motivator

 •  • by Paul Ingraham
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Pain is a motivator. It exists to get us to act. We hurt when our brains reckon we should do something differently for safety. But it’s not always possible. And the brain worries too much: from hangnails to fibromyalgia, the danger gets overstated, the warning worse than the threat.

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