Misconception that if there are winners then there are losers and the reason that there are losers is because there are winners — elevating people ethically and morally benefits everyone around them
The antidote to despair is taking on more responsibility
You need the meaning in your life to offsets the suffering and you do that by bearing a heavy load
What can be seen when studying totalitarian societies is that the longer the citizens wait to act the harder it becomes to change the situation
Twitter is weird, we are not used getting such a high volume of criticism on a daily basis, makes us question ourselves
You need a path and goal which sets up a hierarchy since you place value on something and make sacrifices by pursuing that thing and not other things
On the road you have to learn how to do things that frighten you, and challenge yourself
When you are a behavioral therapist you find the thing the person is avoiding and break it into smaller and smaller pieces until you find something they will agree to do — they don't get less afraid they get braver
When you put yourself into new situations, you encode new structures in your neurology. You unlock parts of yourself previously trapped in your genetic encoding. You need experiences to unleash parts of you trapped in your unconscious.
The more you take on, the more you unlock of yourself. The more suffering you see and bear, the more you become yourself. You recognize the biological potentiality of all men that came before you
If you can face suffering and malevolence and transcend it, you learn the most about yourself
Humans don't want utopias, we think we do. We are designed for adventure, adversity, and overcoming suffering
The feeling of meaning is not a thought, it is a deep feeling that is produced neuro-chemically
Meaning lies in a place where you are competent, yet pushing yourself so you're continually developing
The forces that drive you to meaning must be regulated by anxiety and pain to find the happy medium
Live on the edge of order and chaos, that is where the maximal meaning is. Push yourself beyond your limits of tolerance in your 20's
Moral relativism or ethical relativism is a term used to describe several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different peoples and their own particular cultures — it is wrong
There are lots of ways of interpreting the world, but not many ways to interpret it optimally