Similar to our biological immune system, humans have a psychological immune system which can protect us against unnecessary suffering. Two powerful ways to strengthen our psychological immunity are mindfulness meditation and stoicism negative visualization. Mindfulness meditation can also boost our biological immune system as well according to Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs).

The upside of uncomfortable is personal growth. It’s uncomfortable to test your mettle beyond known capability because you risk failure. It takes wisdom and courage to be willing to learn from failures.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”—Henry David Thoreau (Walden)