Factory: Pain

Pain isn’t useful until it leaves the factory. You have to do something with it. Write the difficult email. Do the extra rep. Have the hard conversation. Apologize first. That’s your finished good.

What am I going to manufacture today?

We pop pills for the headaches. We ghost people who hurt our feelings. We change careers at the first sign of frustration. We treat pain like a defective machine—something to be silenced, repaired, or replaced immediately. pain factory

Inside the Pain Factory: Why Discomfort Is Your Most Valuable Raw Material Pain isn’t useful until it leaves the factory