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Make Friends With Pain
LEADERSHIP
NJERI MUCHUNU
Njeri Muchunu is a Leadership Curator and Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. She has extensive experience in the legal profession spanning over 17 years. She has worked in private legal practice, as an executive in the Corporate sector as well as the Public sector.
Startupmagazine.co.ke
March 2020
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he forces of pain and pleasure impact every area of your life: from relationships, to finances, to how you feel about yourself and others. Everything you do is to either avoid pain or to gain pleasure. So, what do you do with pain? I believe we need a fresh perspective. We need to make friends with our pain.
Happiness wants you to think about maximising your benefits while difficulty and suffering send you on a different course. Athletes often play when they are hurting. They know they have to make friends with their pain. Why do they continue putting themselves through such pain? Because they love playing and understand that their aches and pains are the price they must pay to stay on a field and compete on a field.
Many of us are obsessed with the pursuit of happiness but we often feel empty, alone, obsessed and without meaning.
My friend, do you want to be a better leader? Raise your threshold for pain. Do you want your business to reach
