<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Pain on Mark Cheret - Exponential Coach</title><link>https://cheret.de/tags/pain/</link><description>Recent content in Pain on Mark Cheret - Exponential Coach</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>This work is licensed under the MIT License.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 May 2021 13:12:59 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://cheret.de/tags/pain/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>pain and pleasure</title><link>https://cheret.de/2020/08/pain-and-pleasure/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2020 19:51:23 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://cheret.de/2020/08/pain-and-pleasure/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="achieving-deeper-levels-of-fulfilment-by-choice"&gt;Achieving deeper levels of fulfilment by choice&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When looking at punishment and reward in terms of educational methodologies, it’s psychologically proven that rewards are more effective than punishment.&lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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So far so unsurprising as pleasure promotes a higher state of being than punishment. If everything I believe in turns out to be a shared objective factual experience, that means that there is a natural drive towards a higher state of being, otherwise referred to as the good in every human being, against all odds. The following chart aims to illustrate that, even if pain and pleasure as such are not included. I believe that you know where to rank them, though.
&lt;p&gt;My natural drive goes toward self-improvement and empowerment. Positive emotions are empowering. As we discover, however, it is also required to endure and move past negative emotions and face the pain experienced in that time.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>