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• stress are not synonymous, and neither are discomfort and stress.
• But we’ve also grown increasingly less tolerant of being uncomfortable, and our threshold for discomfort is rapidly shrinking.
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• Despite the growing ubiquity of comfort in our lives, we have become increasingly oversensitive to discomfort—so much so that even subtle adversity and general uneasiness have become capable of inculcating fear and unsettling our physical and emotional health.
• He may not describe himself as “uncomfortable,”