Hm, I notice some confusion here too. It does seem odd that throughout history people would willingly do something so aversive.
My thought is that it’s a prioritization of social status over physical pain. Maybe similar to how if you’re on a sports team and your coach tells you to run, you do it even if you’re 100% totally exhausted. It would be too embarrassing not to, like this scene from Miracle. But the presence of such analogs don’t really resolve much confusion. I still am left confused about why people do it in the context of sports.
Hm, I notice some confusion here too. It does seem odd that throughout history people would willingly do something so aversive.
My thought is that it’s a prioritization of social status over physical pain. Maybe similar to how if you’re on a sports team and your coach tells you to run, you do it even if you’re 100% totally exhausted. It would be too embarrassing not to, like this scene from Miracle. But the presence of such analogs don’t really resolve much confusion. I still am left confused about why people do it in the context of sports.