I read yesterday how Nassim Nicholas Taleb defined a Stoic as someone who “transforms… pain into information.”
We often want to shy away from or avoid pain, but usually it finds us regardless. Another way to approach and to frame pain is to perceive it as “information.” Pain can be seen as feedback that suggests areas where we might need to change or places we are growing. Pain, in other words, points to areas of our lives where we might need to pay attention.
Our 22nd Life Equation is Pain = Information.
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On Emotions 