Nietzsche's philosophy in Fight Club

the whole world and especially Instagram Facebook You Tube or any socoal time waster

makes you think you should be better do

more be more have more and then you'll

be happy but what if this approach is

wrong in my experience life responds to

courage which 99.9% of the World think they have but don't because I am talking about True Courage.

most of all and the rest of

self-improvement is usually just

masturbation and disguise here's why I

felt sorry for guys packed into gyms

trying to look like how Calvin Klein or

Tommy Hilfiger said they should that

what a man looks

like ah self-improvement is

masturbation now

self-destruction excuse

me so just destroy your life eh spit on

everyone and go die in a gutter is that

the heights of philosophical wisdom well

not quite I think Tyler urdan from fight club in the

scene from Fight Club meant

self-destruction in the nichan sense of

going under letting go and facing the

danger hardships that you have been

avoiding destroying the identity and

beliefs that are limiting you without

the courage to shed your skin you will

constantly be suffocated by who you were

while trying to improve your life you

cannot reach the promised land without

the courage to sail over the horizon and

lose sight of the shore courage is what

invigorates us and builds our

testosterone whick again 99.9% of you lack and desperately need. being dangerous is what

makes us feel alive only the courageous

Dow goers can truly transform themselves

and become something new and this idea

was at the center of Tyler Duran's and

nich's philosophy quote what is great in

What is Down-going to Nietzsche

man is that he is a bridge and not a

goal what is lovable in man is that he

is an overgo and a downgoing I love

those who know not how to live except as

Dow goers for they are the overgo

N downgoing is one of the most important

Concepts in Thus Spoke zaratustra and

ESS cenal to all of n's philosophy and

yet almost no one talks about this Dow

goers are those who willingly face the

unpleasant and difficult seasons of Life

they offer their current s up as a

Living Sacrifice and face the discomfort

of change zarathustra the Fearless Sage

embarked on many Great downgoing And

Thus Spoke zarathustra where he

descended into the world of muuk and man

and shared his message of the Overman or

Uber MCH to paraphrase him only those

who are down goers can give birth to the

Overman only those who cheerfully

descend can be free and become something

more this is an interesting bit of

counterintuitive wisdom most of us need

to hear as far as I'm concerned only n

and Tyler durdan called it out you don't

need to be better you need to be more

dangerous and your life will naturally

fall into place going under is how you

go over all your self-improvement and

philosophy is [ __ ] without downgoing

so let's talk about

it the general population constantly

How we lie to ourselves

tries to fix what is broken life

self-improver also constantly try to fix

what is broken themselves everyone and I

mean everyone is trying to improve life

the best they can and get what they want

the problem is 99% of people are dead

wrong oh I need more money and

relationships and to eat better and

start doing yoga and Ice baths [ __ ]

ice baths that's what's going to make my

life awesome that's what I was missing n

called BS on this in reality most of our

wants are just a cope we are terribly

good at lying to ourselves and avoiding

the truth for instance many of you keep

scrolling educational or personal

development videos on YouTube because

you're avoiding an action you need to

take some people's entire life is a

coping mechanism to deal with the

dumpster fire that is their

relationships and still others glorify

being alone when in reality they're too

scared to approach girls humans are

great at rationalizing their actions as

virtuous when in reality fear we

weakness and Conformity are secretly

ruling them to illustrate this point

imagine Two Towers one represents your

current life and the other represents

your highest life here's you standing in

your current shabby Tower here's your

disciplined floor and maybe it's pretty

good here's your balcony of dreams and

your Sex Dungeon of addictions and your

mediocre relationships and everything

else here's the scaffolding of personal

development philosophy Pleasures

happiness and all the coping mechanisms

you have under your Tower is a sea of

fear death and unknown dangers over

there across the sea is the tower you

actually want it is filled with Vitality

greatness Harmony and freedom to get to

the beautiful Tower you must face the

monsters in your basement your

addictions and fears and attachments

that keep you stuck inside you must

learn to follow your heart boldly and

shed your skin this requires courage

Courage to be dangerous

Above All In fact all true

transformation comes from Courage and

unless courage is at the center of your

personal ethos you will lie to yourself

and make rationalizations your whole

lifelong oh I did a cold plunge today

great but you still didn't put in any

consistent work on building your dreams

and you didn't have that hard

conversation that's actually going to

change your life Improvement brings

diminishing marginal returns for

instance if you've never gone to the gym

before going to the gym can radically

change your life but the impact on your

overall physical and mental health

slowly plateaus and no longer increases

anymore and this is what happens with

Improvement on all levels eventually the

Tower of our life hits a ceiling where

it can go no higher and can be made no

more beautiful and at this point it's no

longer about looking up but instead

looking down the treasure you truly seek

is inside the cave you fear to enter

it's not about how much more you can

improve but how much TR truth and fear

you can face radical personal change

comes from this descent and trust me it

is always the descent into change that

we avoid most rigidly but for men of

courage and Faith downgoing are what

make the heart explode with new power

and that is all we want at the deepest

level not a satisfied ego but an

overflowing heart the ego projects all

these wants and needs but only the heart

is the true Compass to n Dow goers are

most r

most of us are consciously or

unconsciously refusing the truth in our

hearts we keep addictions and bad

relationships around because to

sacrifice them would be unpleasant or

heartbreaking we avoid resistances and

hardships and satisfy ourselves with

distractions and make believe

achievements fear dictates our lives

from the shadows and keeps us focused on

the scaffolding rather than on the tower

of true Victory let me repeat that in a

new way fear Keeps Us focused on the

scaffolding on the minutia of the deep

details rather than on the path to True

Victory when you are ruled by fear and

stagnation everything becomes a cope for

not facing your downgoing only when we

descend into the darkness and pursue the

dangerous but exciting path will our

life blossom with new energy and we will

become who we are meant to be for

believe me the secret for harvesting

from existence the greatest fruitfulness

and the greatest enjoyment is to live

Dangerously t n the joy of life is

incoming and the Dow goers are the true

overgo hey I just want to let you know

that I wrote a whole book on going under

and slaying dragons which is now

available on Amazon if you want to go

way deeper I encourage you to check it

out thanks for your support okay back to

the video part two following your heart

Follow your heart?

Charles bukowsky the Great American poet

once said stop insisting on clearing

your head clear your [ __ ] heart

instead maybe you want more peace and

spiritual growth admirable but instead

of trying to meditate more first look

into the fear that is keeping you stuck

what is your heart telling you people

constantly disobey their heart and as a

result their mind is chaotic and life is

dull these people try to fix themselves

or even worse Escape themselves instead

of sacrificing themselves this is like

constantly trying to repair a tower that

is broken at the base you must be

willing to die in some way if you wish

to be reborn otherwise you are just a

snake trying to grow within too small of

a skin and soon you will suffocate

downgoing is the secret you must

sacrifice yourself to your heart and

more specifically to the great longing

in your heart if you wish to truly

transform into something more n said he

loved the higher types who lived their

whole lives as a downgoing as a

sacrifice to the gods to the Overman and

to their highest form

instead of seeking comfort and security

and Lasting happiness which is only

stagnation in reality downg goers live

on the constant path of becoming the

concept of downgoing applies equally to

love work Health spirituality and almost

all domains of life the easiest example

though is relationships most people are

in relationships that suck and that's

because leaving a long-term relationship

that hasn't been working is very hard and takes immense courage. to leave as in leave forever. and the loss

brought about terrible suffering but that pain liberats into a

vibrant New Life starting a relationship

putting in the work to fix a

relationship or leaving a relationship

could all be seen as a downgoing the

same could be said for work leaving a

job that you hate to pursue something

your heart calls you into would bring

about immense change but also expansion

the bottom line is down goinging is

about facing the dangerous path you

intuitively know you need to take most

of us are denying our true path without

even realizing it we deny the innocent

impulses of our hearts the impulse of

creation and victory and freedom and

growth we have built a tower that needs

to fall and yet we stay inside it and

concern ourselves with Petty Trifles

while limping through life on our

crutches why why do we sacrifice the

Great Adventure of Our Lives mainly

because following the heart is dangerous

it is dangerous because it will show you

the truth and sometimes truth demands

change contrary to popular opinion

following your heart isn't easy every

Guru and Instagram influencer out there

constantly preach follow your heart meanwhile they are cowards fake as fuck phonies but

what the hell does that mean to me it

means following your joy and following

your fear both require courage because

the heart rarely presents the safe easy

and rational path but more so just vague

feelings and intuition

in fact the heart will lead you toward

where you have the most resistance

excitement doubt and fear for instance

leaving College to pursue my own path as an Investment Banker at the height of Wall Street when it was filled with the elite filled with the best and the brighetest a kid from the hrd streets of Hells Kitchen to go up against the Worlds Best i fucking Loved it and never once felt fear they all feared me because you always fear what ypu dont understand.

Everyone i grew up with of course not to my face bu behind my back talked non stop shit writing a book was a hellish

battle with resistance and doubt every

single day for two years that no one

could understand unless you do it

leaving behind the addictions that ruled

my adult life was terrifying I didn't

know how to function without my crutches

all of these events created enormous

downgoing in the nitian sense a season

of pain and hardship and loss but my

heart demanded each Act of Courage for

some unknown reason to do otherwise only

made my life worse and more miserable a

season of transformation is always

indicated by a turmoil heart and let me

be clear the heart will lead you through

hell but that's how you reach heaven

this sentiment is an echo of some of my

favorite excerpts of my book quote this

is the secret of rebirth when the heart

starts singing stop thinking and follow

it the mind can deceive you in every way

imaginable but the heart doesn't know

how to lie the heart is the compass when

the heart is pained it also Whispers of

the way the hard times of grief and

suffering come to help you attune to

your heart use them

part three starting with another nche

Nietzsche and Dionysus

quote I love him who has a free spirit

and a free heart thus his head is only

the guts of his heart his heart however

causes his down goings n thus his head

is only the guts of his heart I love

this line so much let's break that down

and get a bit more philosophical when

you work to free your heart and spirit

and follow them sincerely your mind

clears itself out the ego becomes a

vehicle of your deeper nature and Truth

your thoughts fill with the courageous

impulses of your heart but the heart

holds dangerous truths parts of your

psyche yet to be revealed the heart

causes your downgoing because it demands

you shed your skin and offer up a

sacrifice it demands you sacrifice or as we Greeks call it Thysia what

is comfortable but stagnant for what is

unknown and exciting nature proclaimed

himself an initiate of dianis and dionis

to him was the secret genius or Damon of

the heart dionis was the god of becoming

the primordial force that inspires

growth and transformation and ecstasy

dionisis is the initiator god and

personal initiation always starts with

Severance and descent descent into the

fruitful darkness and there in the

darkness and pain is where the wild

ecstatic and innocent energies start to

emerge n claimed to love those who live

Downgoers

their entire lives is great downgoing

instead of pursuing the easy and

pleasurable life that traps most people

downg goers choose to pursue their

highest Victory even if it means facing

great fear Dow goers give themselves

entirely over to the courageous impulses

of their heart and in doing so they

learn to live beyond themselves and from

n's perspective in my own experience

this art of downgoing and overgo is the

most joyful experience of life

what I've learned is that you can't

really overcome yourself and flourish

until you're willing to let go and shed

your own skin life responds to courage

most of all and the downg goers are

truly the

overdoers