The Pain You're Avoiding Is the Key to Your Greatness | Amy Purdy

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

At 19, Amy Purdy lost her kidneys, her spleen, and her hearing all at once. She says it gave her life more meaning than she ever imagined possible, and explains why the pain you're running from might be the very thing that opens every door.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:12.1	What if you didn't have all these challenges, physically, emotionally, that most people
0:17.7	never experienced.
0:18.8	Do you think you could have had a great life still?
0:21.4	I don't think I would have had a life with as much meaning.
0:25.7	Really? Oh, for sure. Without the pain, the suffering, the surgeries, you don't think it would
0:30.2	have been as... Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, I think I would have been a massage therapist.
0:35.1	I would have loved helping people because that's what I was doing before.
0:38.3	I have no idea where I would have gone after that.
0:40.3	But I think that our challenges bring us into the depths of life.
0:45.3	They help us experience life to its fullest.
0:50.3	We think that our challenges stop us from experiencing life to the fullest, but really it's
0:55.0	what opens the door so that we can experience life to the fullest.
0:59.0	I think a lot of people need to hear this because most people are running away from their
1:03.0	challenges.
1:04.0	They're running away from their pain and their problems.
1:07.0	Right.
1:08.0	I'm not saying you should live a life of problem and pain all day long.
1:10.0	No. But what I'm hearing you say is that your challenges and the pain and the biggest struggles
1:16.4	you've been through have given you the most meaning and fulfillment as well.
1:20.7	How can someone think that way who is in the middle of so much pain and sadness right now
1:26.3	in their own personal life?
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