What determines your success isn’t “What do you want to enjoy?” The question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?” The quality of your life is not determined by the quality of your positive experiences but the quality of your negative experiences. And to get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.
Source: You probably know to ask yourself, “What do I want?” Here’s a way better question — Quartz
I’ve internalized this before a couple of years back.
I had a personal motto. Proof of desire is pursuit.
I sort of forgot about it and only now am beginning the process of re internalizing and living it again.