Is “embracing discomfort” the key to making progress in life, personally or professionally? Not universally, no. We want to be mindful of not creating new compulsions—including a compulsion to ‘embrace discomfort’—lest we become trapped by them (e.g., mistaking discomfort for progress, instinctively/reactively rejecting ease or comfort—even in our relationships). This can end up reinforcing the same craving-avoidance loops we were perhaps hoping to escape in our pursuit of progress—i.e., if…