If you optimize for comfort, you'll never grow.

Growth comes from challenge.

Challenge doesn't feel good in the moment.^[fq]

But afterwards you're glad you did it.

Bad challenge grinds you down.

Good challenge makes you stronger.

In the moment it feels like all challenge is bad, and after you're done most challenge feels like good challenge.

Doomscrolling is not comfortable, but it's also not challenging.

It doesn't force you to grow, change, update your model of the world.

It just says "Yes, you're right, the things you thought were bad are bad."

Challenge is not comfortable.

But not all discomfort is challenge.