How Learning to “Suffer Well” Can Help Us Flourish at Work #shorts

Life is suffering. Literally, from the moment we are born, there is suffering all around us. And in many ways, the question of Buddhism, I think, is, how do you suffer? Well, and I think that's the question of many ancient religions. I think that's the question of a lot of philosophy that's out there. And perhaps the thing that we have done wrong is to think that we shouldn't be suffering at all. And I think that that's, in some ways, the failure of our society is. And it goes back to this. You know what happens when a society focuses so much on hedonism, on pleasure, on maximizing pleasure and reducing pain to the extent that we ignore the fact that a fundamental part of being human, the fundamental part of being alive, is that there will be pain and that we have to find meaning in that pain. We have to find relationships in that pain. We have to find a sense of growth within that pain. Otherwise, the pain's unbearable. But at the same time, the pain is inevitable. We are born on this earth to die. And if we don't try to appreciate that at some level, if we don't make the best of our time while we have it, we're missing the point.