In order to choose a courageously authentic and purpose driven life, learning the discipline of leaning into healthy pain is a necessary component of the journey and this lifestyle. A majority of us spend our lives doing everything we can to avoid being subject to pain, pursuing a life of comfort and safety. But we have to lean into the healthy pain and let it do its refining work in us, making us a more authentic version of ourselves, while avoiding the self inflicted pitfall of stupid pain. The radically human, courageously authentic and purpose driven life you were created to live is often just on the other side of the pain you are unwilling to endure.