In the music making industry, there is something called a compressor. A compressor is a tool that an audio engineer would use to help make recordings sound better.
Let's say you are playing a sweet guitar solo. That solo gets recorded on one channel. Like any good guitar solo, the volume will have a wide range from emotional brushing of the strings to explosive shredding. It will vary largely in decibel, measurable volume.
The role of the compressor, very very briefly put, still don't fully understand it, is to normalize the audio to bring down the highs and up the lows to a desired effect in efforts to make a more uniform guitar solo so you don't have to keep adjusting the volume on your speakers when you can't hear shit and then it's way too loud.
However, you don't want to make everything the same volume because then you lose a lot of the meaning from the performance. It becomes too flat, dull, and boring. It loses its character.
I believe that in life, we often need a compressor. We use tools and strategies that help us bring down what's too high and bring up what is too low. This idea I think is used in business, medicine, philosophy, storytelling and all over the place.
It's an important idea to keep with you because there is an art and a science to compression and you will find it in many areas of your life. Figure out how to utilize the compressors you have available to you, whether that be physical tools, mental frameworks, systems, strategies, you name it.
You want to keep the signal in check so it doesn't hit the extremes, but you still want to let it breathe. Figure out the right ratio of how to normalize things around you or even within yourself.
Pull yourself up when you are feeling low. Don't get lost when you are on top of the world. It's not a constant. Keep adjusting your life's compressor settings.