And it is not easy for him to decide what is the best for him. He bungles in his choice of his best and suffers as a consequence. This happens because he does not feel competent to judge the various factors which go to. In short, man suffers from ignorance of the laws of life. He has to know how to act at any given time.
Most people come to grief due to the wrong notion that they can succeed by asserting themselves.
The truth is just the opposite. The false idea that self-assertion can bring success is based on the ignorance of the fact that there are also others in this world who can equally assert themselves and stand against the assertion from any particular individual or centre of action. No one has ever succeeded in life, who confronted the others in the world with his ego. All egoism is met with an equally strong egoism from outside. To take always one s own standpoint, whether in an action, an argument or even in feeling, is to court opposition , while the law of life is cooperation .