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This is a living archive of my thoughts, experiences, and hard-earned insights, drawn from an unusual life. Here you’ll find reflections on the food I’ve eaten, the things I’ve bought, the people I’ve encountered, the places I’ve seen, the books I’ve read, the quotes I’ve kept, and the trends I’ve spotted and capitalized on.
I write this for you, my children, those already here and those yet to come. Daddy loves you more than words can hold. I want each of you to live lives you’re proud of. This is my thinking, in my own voice, left here for you to explore. I hope one day it proves useful.
If, by some unlikely chance, I’m gone before I can guide you in person, let this stand as a poor substitute. But in the more likely case that I’m still here, let this serve as an intellectual archive, a record that I held these convictions long before you were born. May that give weight to my words, and credibility to the wisdom I hope to pass on to you.
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In the quest to live a good life, each of us, consciously or implicitly, chooses an ultimate value around which to orient our life. For many this value is wealth, for others it may be status, social-acceptance, happiness, pleasure, love, knowledge, or comfort. In this video, drawing from the insights of the 19th century philosopher…
We need a great rebirth of the heroic in our world. Every sector of human society, wherever that may be on the planet, seems to be slipping into unconscious chaos. – Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, The 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said that “Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds.”…
Friedrich Nietzsche believed himself to be a philosophical physician. One of his missions in life was to help others understand the sickness into which modern society was falling and to offer a cure to the poison of a corrupted value system. “To be a physician here to be inexorable here, to wield the knife here…
Nietzsche thought that the universe was the manifestation of an underlying force that he called the will to power. “This world is the will to power – and nothing besides!”, he proclaimed. Nietzsche characterized the will to power, the basic underlying essence of the universe, as “an insatiable desire to manifest power”. In this lecture,…
“I call an animal, a species, an individual corrupt, when it loses its instincts, when it chooses when it prefers, what is harmful to it.” Throughout much of history, humans have perceived themselves as superior to all other creatures. Myths of our divine origin and our place at the crown of creation are found in…
“What if a regressive trait lurked in “the good man,” likewise a danger, an enticement, a poison, a narcotic, so that the present lived at the expense of the future? Perhaps in more comfort and less danger, but also in a smaller-minded, meaner manner? … So that morality itself were to blame if man never…
Nietzsche viewed himself as the first psychologist amongst the great philosophers. Given that Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler, three giants of 20th-century psychology, were all heavily influenced by Nietzsche’s psychological insights, his grandiose self-assessment seems to have contained at least a kernel of truth. Nietzsche’s psychological investigations were not conducted for the sake…
For Nietzsche philosophy was not a “critique of words by means of other words”. Instead, for Nietzsche philosophy had a definite practical purpose: that being, to facilitate the emergence of the great individual who dedicates their life to growth and self-overcoming. Such a pursuit would provide one with the ability to completely affirm life in the face of…
Here we have our present age… bent on the extermination of myth. Man today, stripped of myth, stands famished among all his pasts and must dig frantically for roots. – Friedrich Nietzsche. We live in a time where science and technology have diminished our suffering. But can the same be said about our psychological suffering?…
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