"The purpose of pain is to move us in action, not to make us suffer." Tony Robbins If we can frame pain for what it is, we redefine what this feeling means to us. As Tony Robbins puts it, it's purpose is to move us forward. It's leverage. A massive edge when seen through the right lens. Few things in the world can get a human being to move faster than pain. We recognize to do anything great, it's going to be temporarily uncomfortable. It's going to take the grit and grind that we all know. What this is far from however, is suffering. Suffering is a state of mind that takes hold when we don't understand why we're feeling pain. Pain is mandatory, suffering is optional.