Suffering is an essential teacher for finding meaning in life, and avoiding it hinders personal growth.

“one of the greatest ways for you to miss the meaning of your life is for you to try to avoid your suffering.”

Accepting one's own insignificance is a necessary step for finding peace with mortality and finitude.

“it's only through accepting my complete and utter insignificance that I can have some semblance of peace with my finitude and my eventual and relatively quick demise”

Humans possess a built-in tendency to evaluate their own wellbeing relative to the people within their specific social circles rather than through absolute achievements.

“in truth we always compare to other people one reason we compare is that we learn from other people let's say you know you if you ask yourself am I successful in life well you can look at people like you people maybe who were in your high school when you were young”