Videos for week 9 - Why do we choose to suffer?

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Based on the response question alone I'm not sure why we choose to suffer. I personally think it's due to all the positive benefits and outcomes all having the path of having to do hardships and difficult tasks that end up having a reward at the end. Thus, people choose to suffer because there seems to be a common theme of no more suffering when done. A saying that helps picture this better is the saying how "beauty is pain" among most women when doing beautification as the pain behind the process of getting ready is ok because one will be gorgeous in the end. People do this all the time, especially with weight loss or anything that requires necessary discipline. Why do we choose to do it? I think it's because at the end of the day no one else is going to do it for us. 

In the video linked, it is a podcast discussing why we choose to suffer and the person speaking is Dr. Paul Bloom who is a psychologist with his Ph.D. and continues the discussion of why people choose to do things that originally spark from sadness. Dr. Bloom also goes into the choice of chosen and unchosen suffering which I found really interesting as one you choose due to knowing what may be at the end of the suffering, but unchose I feel is what people tend to stray away from as it's not intentional and may be out of range of their comfort zone. Something I found interesting in the podcast is when Dr. Bloom considers suffering along the lines of an intense jog or going to school for a boggling amount of time is due to the "pleasure of mastery" which I enjoyed due to mastering something takes lots of time and practice but the best part is when completing something that was once hard becomes a task that doesn't require you to think twice about. Another opinion of Dr. Blooms that allowed me to ponder over it for a while is that people also love suffering due to it being an "escape from self" and bringing traits of disassociation. The topic of escaping from the self came from the discussion of BDSM and brought questions of why would one want pain during such an intimate moment. Bloom said that BDSM and other forms of chosen suffering bring an escape from self due to some people having unpleasant self-thoughts and sudden pain is a surprisingly good way to clear the mind. 

Suffering is something that comes and goes or may, unfortunately, be a constant state in some lives but I think if there is anything one can control with all of them is the state of mind the sufferer is in. State of mind is important because it is best to be aware of how one is feeling and what they're going through as sometimes suffering whether chosen or unchosen can create false ideas of the whole life and world suffering when that's not completely true. There's no foolproof way to avoid suffering, but I think if you can choose the battles wisely and I hope your suffering brings great rewards. 

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