Understand this: society wants to assign you a role. As soon as you accept that role, you’re doomed. - Robert Greene

Learn to move fast and adapt or you will be eaten. The best way to avoid this fate is to assume formlessness. No predator alive can attack what it cannot see. OBSERVANCE

We humans have discussed and analyzed almost every conceivable phenomenon in the known Universe. But the phenomenon that we rarely discuss, let alone acknowledge, is the most essential, startling, and strangest one of all—that we are alive right now, moving through a world just as it is.

The pain is kind of challenge your mind presents - will you learn how to focus and move past boredom, or like a child will you succumb to the need for immediate pleasure and distraction?