Photo by Rekha Garton. ​“These are the times which try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine wrote about how we often experience suffering from our circumstances in 1776. Not much has changed. Research now proves that people actually seek out physical suffering to push the limits of what is possible. However, we also seek out emotional and mental suffering just as much. Unfortunately, those often don’t deliver the benefit of growth physical suffering can provide. The seduction suffering