Schopenhauer was a crazy philosopher in all sense. His writings were blunt, brute, and to the point. He wants us to think within, focus on our consciousness. Our life is as we see the world around us. The bumper sticker, achievements, medals are of no use apart from shoving the ego.
Who is happier? A healthy poor or a sick king?
Pain and boredom come with social structure. A poor has pain while rich is bored, which prompts him/her refuge of anything from creativity to vice.
Schopenhauer also talks about the importance of health in our life. He stresses on daily exercise: physical and mental.
Reading him bought back every other philosopher in front of me from Diogenes to Socrates to Epicurus to Epictetus.
I read the Aeon article followed by The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer