Pain Is Information

I like this post. I feel identified.<p>I would add that in my case, sometimes I feel pain, and I do not know what information I can get from it.<p>For instance, when someone criticizes one of my projects, I have pain and also information to improve.<p>Unfortunately, some of my projects do not have any feedback, just indifference. Like when I have no comment in HN. I have pain and no information. I do not know what to learn from it.<p>Perhaps, in those cases, the information is that I have to keep on building, and keep on trying.

&gt; Pain is information, and information is painful.<p>Lots of folks seem to hold the opinion that learning anything is going to hurt.<p>I note these folks are often older; having been through some public education experience.<p>Kids don&#x27;t have that attitude <i>before</i> school.