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Habituate To Make Discomfort More Positive
I’m not going to give you a motivational speech about “seeing the bright side” or “finding your bliss.” You need to embrace the discomfort.
Actually, go further — marinate in it. Through the lens of habituation, you make bad things less bad by getting so used to them that you forget they’re horrible.
Researchers took 119 subjects and exposed them to a persistent, irritating noise. Then they asked the volunteers if they’d like a short break. 82 of the 119 said, “OH GOD, YES!” The others stayed in the room the whole time. At the end of the study, who reported suffering more? Yup, the ones who took the break. The people who stayed in the room the whole time had habituation dialing down the annoyance. They got used to it.
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