HeyJaredNietzsche Wisdoms
Practical lessons for today from Friedrich Nietzsche's life work.
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How to Talk Without Performing (opens the original)
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Watch two people at a crowded dinner and you will often see two monologues taking turns. Each speaker waits behind a polite face for the other to finish, so the real business of the evening, being noticed, can resume. By the time the plates are cleared, neither has learned anything about the other, and both drive home faintly hungry for a kind of contact they cannot name.When people decide to talk better, they usually go shopping for technique, memorizing opening lines and rehearsing stories tha
How to Handle Criticism (opens the original)
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Criticism is unavoidable.The moment you create something, express an opinion, set a boundary, pursue an unusual path, or simply refuse to behave the way others expect, someone will have something to say about it.Some criticism will be useful. Some will be unfair. Some will be cruel. Some will be completely meaningless.The difficult part is not hearing criticism. The difficult part is knowing what to do with it.Many people make one of two mistakes. They either take criticism personally and allow
You Don't Run a Horse Race Sitting on a Donkey (opens the original)
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You believe your thinking is hard and mature, but can you actually carry it? Have you ever, with true devotion, tried to know yourself? Nietzsche asked for something harder than self-knowledge. He asked you to become who you are, and no man becomes anything while a crowd applauds him for what he already is.Merely by considering everyone insignificant, you will not become stronger than you were yesterday. You are living your life with half-hearted effort, in a place where people mistake you for a
The Fall of Nietzsche (opens the original)
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We quote Nietzsche as if he never bled. What does not kill you makes you stronger, we say, and we picture a stone face behind a heavy mustache, a man who walked through fire and came out clean.Now picture him at Christmas in 1882. He is thirty-eight years old and alone in a rented room on the Italian coast. His eyes are failing, and his head aches for days at a time. He lives on a small pension from a university job he had to quit, and he swallows opium to get through the nights. In a few short
3 Steps to Becoming Dangerously Good at Anything (opens the original)
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“Our vanity, our self-love, promotes the cult of the genius; for only if we think of him as being very remote from us, as a miraculum, does he not aggrieve us.”Everyone carries one buried ambition, and carries it the way smugglers carry contraband, hidden, denied, checked at night to see whether it still breathes. Yours might be a book, a company, an instrument, or a craft your grandfather practiced and you let go. You know its name even if you have never said it aloud. Around it, over the years
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