Katie H- Trauma makes you appreciate pain. Does that make you better at tolerating life?

 Does being someone who’s experienced pain make you a better sportsman? 

we discussed in class the sports teaches you to ignore pain. by that metric, someone who's experienced more pain would have more practice at tolerating and dealing with pain. both with the mental strength and with physical strength, sportsmen will function better if they have experience and practice with ignoring and using pain as an advantage. so someone who's struggled in their life and had to fight mental and physical pain would then do better in sports. Trauma makes you appreciate pain. it teaches you to adapt and adjust to your environment and withstand its tests.Does that make you better at tolerating life? if we apply the same theory of the sportsman to the average person and their daily struggles, the same theory applies. to a certain degree, PTSD being the obvious outlier. but within the spectrum, the more experience you have with something, the better you are with it. so if you have a lot of experience with tolerating mental pain you would be better with adjusting to it in the future. so traumatic experiences would then theoretically make you resilient to them in the future. I am saying this all I theory because obviously it doesn't always work in practice as we can think of many examples of it not being true. but the theory is still interesting because it brings to mind the phrase “It builds character” in reference to something that it annoying or uncomfortable to do, but must be done.