There’s a deep principle here and it’s related to stoicism. The capacity to intentionally choose hardship because one sees the value in it.
Many ‘common sense’ ideas assume that no normal person would ever do that. That’s what makes us predictable. But a person who intentionally chooses hardship for his/her own reasons does not easily fit into models of predictability.
There are hardships that one takes on because one has no choice. And then there are hardships that one takes on because one has the capacity for it.
Like a person who has enough food and water, and goes outside to see if anyone else needs some.
They will knowingly face pain and connect to it.
Any pain will seed creativity. Forced or chosen.
I’m going to keep this brief, in case by some miracle it manages to make sense.