“Alright, this won’t make any sense, rationally. It’s a bit like learning to be grateful when you are injured, lose, make a mistake, or are harmed. Not because you want to be. Not because of anything other than this. Those species of events contain what you might think of as a hidden power. This is ‘why they hurt’. The hurt is the shell of the power. If you take off the shell, what you actually have, is more power than friendliness, aid, encouragement, or support. But you have to take the shell off, first. And still, you don’t go seeking it. Or, if you do, you just to this sitting very quietly. In fact, ever-more quietly. Oh, yes, that power? You can think of it as relational intelligence development factor. Exposure to that power radically improves your ability to develop a wide array of otherwise inaccessible intelligence forms, and practically guarantees that you shall.”

— an anonymous informant