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i agree
for me it was a phase but particularly because my ideas of suffering and tolerance to it changed
one stoic dressed in stupid clothes in order to be made fun of to harden himself.
the idea is if you hurt more, you learn to endure it more
but that's not right, my perspective is that we have a finite ability to mitigate pain and it doesn't necessarily improve because its to do with circumstances like overall health and sleep, just basic self care makes you better able to handle things. if people adapted to things indefinitely people in high stress jobs would eventually acclimate to it but they don't in practice? idk stoics said a lot of things that sounded good but are either not applicable to daily life or otherwise just masochism
