That...

there are all kinds of people on Steem, spread all throughout the world. This creates a vast amount of potential learning through a distributed pain model, and of course, each of our behaviors are affected by our own pasts, and how we have learned from them.

This...

Some learn to be stronger, others not.

and that...

While the avoidance of pain might be very attractive, I wonder how much of value can only be learned through the experience of it. Some never learn, some never stop.