Wet socks, sore feet, and you still finished the hike. That’s the story you’ll tell, not the dry ones.

Comfort leaves almost nothing behind. The days that stay with you are the ones where something went wrong and you kept going anyway. Ease tests nothing, so there is nothing to remember afterward. Discomfort is not the price of the story, it is the material the story is made of.

When something goes sideways this week, try staying in it ten minutes longer than you want to. Afterward write one line about what you did rather than how bad it felt. You are collecting evidence about yourself, and the rough days hold most of it.