Discomfort is a Part of Being Human

5 Dec 2022 · 0 min

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A short single-speaker monologue arguing that discomfort is a normal part of human life and should not be rejected wholesale. The speaker contrasts liking vs loving (jobs, children), uses everyday examples (bad weather, uncomfortable conversations) to show there are appropriate levels of discomfort, and advises labeling behaviors or skills rather than assigning fixed moral judgments to people (e.g., leaders making mistakes).

We don't have to like our jobs every day. We get to love them every day. We don't have to like it every day. You don't like your kids every day. You love them every day. And I think this, we sort of have this sort of rejection of discomfort these days. You know what, everybody has to be made to feel comfortable all the time. And at the end of the day, discomfort is part of being human.
Go back like bad weather is being out of the rain, it's uncomfortable. So you know how we manage that line, because there is a line where there is too much, but there's also too little. So I think in terms of uncomfortable conversations.
Or when companies are trying to find their pacing and when leaders make mistakes, it doesn't mean they're bad people. We have to remember that it's the behavior or the skill set that we're labeling, not the person.