Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering … It’s not that pain equals art. It’s that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better.*
Susan Cain

That’s the process of evolution. An evaluation criteria for determining whether to convert input to output, I think the initial values that the brain is equipped with are pain and discomfort.**
Ryunosuke Koike

We wish there were no pain,
But it’s always been an important element when it came to
life or death, or at least between
stick or twist,
Being awakened to the power of our imagination to face the
pressure of reality, somehow alchemising
transcendence;
It’s likely that we’re here
doing something we’re pretty good at because of pain
rather than comfort.

*Susan Cain’s Bittersweet;
**Ryunosuke Koike’s The practice of Not Thinking.