There is no such thing as change without pain, no growth without discomfort. It’s why it is impossible to become someone new without first grieving t… - Mark Manson

In the long run, completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game. Starting a small business with friends while struggling to make ends meet makes us happier than buying a new computer. These activities are stressful, arduous, and often unpleasant. They also require withstanding problem after problem. Yet they are some of the most meaningful moments and joyous things we’ll ever do. They involve pain, struggle, even anger and despair — yet once they’re accomplished, we look back and get all misty-eyed telling our grandkids about them.

To anyone who owns their mistakes and learns from their failures, I salute you.

Certainty is the enemy of growth.