The extreme version of that: "Embrace the Suck".[1] By a Navy SEAL with a masochistic streak. SEALs are selected for people who will keep going while suffering, but this guy is into the suffering as an end in itself.

The industrial version: "In Praise of Hard Industries".[2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Embrace-Suck-Navy-SEAL-Extraordinary/...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Hard-Industries-Manufacturing-...