You might already know this,
Everybody wants to achieve something but they are not ready to do what it takes.
But have you wondered why is that?
Have you ever thought about it psychologically that, why our brain decides that it wants this or that, but it switches its thought to some other direction – When the actual part of “doing what it takes” comes in.
Well that’s what I want to call the psychology of pain and pleasure
And now, what I am going to say has a connection with the famous proverb
“No pain, no gain”
So, let’s get into the discussion about the real topic.
Our brain is just like a mobile phone with its own default settings. Until or unless you change any of your thoughts – it’s going to behave and work under the same condition as it was before.
By default – our brain is pleasure-driven
It moves towards pleasure all the time and highlights pain to stay away from it.
It will find the pain in pleasure but not the pleasure in pain.
Just stop reading, and try to connect the previous sentence with the first sentence of this context – you will get my point.
When we want to achieve something – we tend to visualize the pleasure behind the outcome of that achievement but not the pain it takes to continue the journey to the achievement.
For example, you might want to be as fit as models. But why?
It may be just because it’s cool to look gorgeous and being fit. And being cool gives your brain the indication of pleasure.
That’s how our brain is wired to see the end product with the pleasure-driven mindset.
But, what will be the solution to rewire this thought process of our brain?
Well, the solution is pretty simple – You should ask yourself – whether this juice is worth the squeeze.
If it’s not worth it, then there will be a high probability that you will quit soon from that goal
If you want to achieve what you want, you should be able to find pleasure in the pain that takes to continue the journey.
Our brain will always see the pain in pleasure to quit it but you should take a little bit of conscious effort to rewire it from default and make it find pleasure in the pain