What aspects of discovery are present within "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket"?

The main character of "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" discovers that the most important things in life are really not things.
Initially, Tom Benecke is focused primarily on "moving up the corporate ladder" by submitting an innovative idea for a new grocery store display method. To support his idea, he has spent "four long Saturday afternoons" standing in supermarkets, counting the people who passed various displays. During his lunch hours and in the evenings for weeks, he has gone through countless trade publications, copying facts and figures. All of this information has been recorded upon one creased, yellow sheet of paper.
One weekend night, his wife Claire prepares to go to the movies alone because Tom is still working on his project, explaining, "Got to get this done though." Claire replies, "You work too much though, Tom—and too hard." Tom replies that she will be thrilled when he becomes known as the "Boy Wizard of Wholesale Groceries."
As Claire opens the apartment door, a draft is created that quickly draws the yellow sheet containing all Tom's data out the opened window. It drops to the ornamental ledge a yard below the window where it is out of Tom's reach. Standing near this open window, Tom then engages in an argument with himself. He considers that the work can be duplicated, but it would take two months. The ideas on this sheet will not bring him a promotion or a raise; nevertheless, the yellow sheet contains ideas and figures that can begin his climb to the corporate top. Tom Benecke decides that he cannot abandon his hopes for a promotion. "And he knew he was going out there in the darkness, after the yellow sheet fifteen feet beyond his reach." At this point, Tom discovers that his getting a promotion is worth risking his life.
It is while Tom is outside looking down eleven stories where he could fall and then realizing that the window to his apartment has slammed shut that he begins to think of the folly of his decision to retrieve the yellow sheet. He has risked his life for this list of facts and figures. He may never again see and hold his wife. On the ledge, Tom Benecke has now discovered that things are of small value compared to matters of the heart and spirit. So, he summons all the courage in his heart and strength in his fist and shoots his arm forward toward the glass of the closed window, calling out "Claire!" 
Fortunately, Tom breaks through the glass and propels himself into his apartment. He immediately grabs his coat, opens the door to hurry and catch Claire at the cinema. Ironically, the draft again lofts the yellow sheet out the window that has been broken. This time, however, Tom Benecke "burst(s) into laughter and then close(s) the door behind him," because he has readjusted his values. Now, he has discovered that things are not as important as his life and the woman he loves.