Today's Boys are soft...

to the ancient Greek Aristocrat danger

and hardship were seen as good things

even fear was a god they celebrated it

was actually comfort and security that

were seen as the true dangers where they

tried to live up to the mighty myths of

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Heracles and

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odyusa through adversity we try to make

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life as comfortable as possible our

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modern value system has been completely

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reversed from that of classical times

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nature the 19th century philosopher saw

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this with astounding Clarity and tried

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to warn us away from The Temptations of

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an easy life yet many have fallen into

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this trap if I gave you the option of an

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easy life full of comfort and pleasure

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or a hard life full of danger Beauty and

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meaning what would you choose one

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inevitably leads to shallow misery while

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the other makes the soul sing with

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vitality and growth I'm looking for

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someone to share in an

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adventure an

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adventure now I don't imagine anyone

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west of Bri would have much interest in

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Adventures nasty disturbing

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uncomfortable

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things make you're late for

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dinner imagine if bbo baggin or Frodo

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The Hobbit from Lord of the Ring

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never left the sh would you want to read

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that story it would be boring as hell

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and yet that is the story most of us

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write for ourselves unconsciously we say

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we want a great life but aren't willing

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to pay the price for it whenever

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suffering or uncertainty arise we run

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from it or cower in pain when gets

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difficult we seek the easy path and tend

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to let fear dictate our paths rather

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than courage we want success without

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effort Adventures without Danger there

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is Limitless potential for greatness

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within each of us but most will never

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realize it because they live for Comfort

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rather than

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Victory on the extreme end of humanity

the domestication of man

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many people want robots and AI to do

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everything difficult for them they want

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pills for every discomfort and

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entertainment for every dull hour if the

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Som drug of the Brave New World was

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invented most would take the

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dehumanizing Bliss pill without a second

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thought no wonder n said Society has

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tamed the wolf into a dog and man is the

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most domesticated animal of

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all the Shih Tzu is a direct descendant

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of the gry wolf of China years of

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comfort and breeding for the weaker

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qualities destroyed the very essence

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that made it a wolf wolves are Fierce

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self-reliant and Powerful creatures that

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could take down a thousand pound Caribou

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they fight and live Wild free and are

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connected to one another the Shih Tzu

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however is dependent on its Master

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rolling around in its baby carriage and

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fed consistent meals it has become a

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shadow of its former self its instincts

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and feelings are dimmed its bark and

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bite are nullified its Soul has been

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trimmed down to the faintest echo of the

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original wolf spirit that prowled the

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hills the Shih Tzu may be cute but only

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the wolf is

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majestic unfortunately we more closely

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resemble a shih tzu than a wolf likee

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ancestors and we wonder why we are

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miserable while swiping away on screens

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in dark rooms eating frozen meals and

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shunning our Natural Instincts this is

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what the Greeks and Nicha warned against

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the cult of weakness nche foresaw this

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remarkable de Evolution and warned of

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the coming last man which we covered in

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the previous video the last man is akin

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to a shih tzu someone who lives a

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superficial life without aim or

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aspiration as a slave to their weaker

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nature today we are talking about the

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antidote to the last man if you're

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watching this you're probably one of the

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Brave spirits who reject modernity and

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want to bring forth the highest version

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of yourself and culture in n's

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philosophy this aspiration is the

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prerequisite for greatness along with

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learning to live heroically and suffer

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well so much of my own life has been a

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desperate struggle through resistance

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hardship heartbreak and fear to bring

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forth the potential I feel inside along

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the way the lessons and stories of

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Heroes and Warrior philosophers from the

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past have inspired me most n was one of

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those Inspirations he sought to elevate

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what makes man most healthy and

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spiritually alive and his heroic

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philosophy has been a sweet nectar

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through times of trouble he saw that the

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greatness within man could only be

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manifested through great aim

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self-overcoming and from acquiring ing a

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taste for suffering and danger this

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video is about the latter here in the

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first video in n's guide to Greatness we

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are diving into his advice for the free

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spirits of tomorrow and how suffering

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makes you beautiful thanks for joining

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wisdom Warriors I'm Christian hit that

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Life-affirmation

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launch part one life

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affirmation for believe me the secret

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for harvesting from existence the

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greatest fruitfulness and the greatest

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enjoyment is to live

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dangerously the problem is is suffering

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sucks getting sick breaking your arm

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losing something or someone you love

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feeling lonely pain it's all tragic and

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no one can fix that about life no matter

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how hard they try unfortunately we don't

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have a positive sense for the tragic

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drama of living anymore not like the

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ancient Greeks anyway and as a result we

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have lost our taste for danger and

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exalted suffering n identified two

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approaches to life and the inherent

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suffering it holds life denial or life

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affirmation life denial is the chosen

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path of the West I call it the way of

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the shih tzu life deniers negate the way

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of nature the way of strength and pursue

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safety and comfort externally they hate

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suffering and pain and discomfort as

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evil things so they try to escape it

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they try to fix it these life deniers

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try to make the world perfectly safe and

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equal as to make existence as easy as

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possible for them and as safe as

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possible for the herd of shih tzus that

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is their highest value making life easy

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and equal and safe to these life deniers

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and preachers of equality n would ask

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what is the purpose of

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civilization is it to make everyone safe

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and pacified with pleasure or is it to

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produce higher types of men and women

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who can push the human species forward

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is not the production of high culture

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and radically free and vital human

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beings the purpose of all of this

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Society Stuff n would say we have lost

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our aim and without an aim we are Paving

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our way to hell with good

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intentions life affirmation is the

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opposite path to life denial and it was

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nich's solution to creating the most

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robust type of person and

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civilization life affirms do not seek to

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fix Nature's Way They seek to thrive

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through challenge they affirm the wild

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mysterious and marvelous ordeal of

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living as it is they do not seek to

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escape suffering but overcome it they

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Revel in competition and in conquering

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themselves as a result of this approach

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they build up their self-reliance and

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internal resources instead of relying on

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external Securities to protect them

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where life deniers become dependent on

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other people and institutions for their

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safety and well-being life affirms take

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full responsibility for themselves life

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affirms live dangerously where other

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people stay safe they choose resistance

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over ease and because of this Spirit of

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heroism they become

Life-denial and false utopia

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free

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life denial or life affirmation

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represent the two possible paths we can

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take to deal with suffering and

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uncertainty one makes you progressively

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weaker while the other makes you

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stronger and more profound than ever

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before n saw that our entire moral

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system as a people will come to reflect

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which path we choose to walk do we value

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equality and safety for the herd as the

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highest ideal or heroism nobility and

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the production of high culture I'm not

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arguing that one set of values is

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totally unimportant but that we have to

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get clear on what is most

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important I just read The Giver a

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fabulous book depicting a society that

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first appears as a Utopia led by

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Progressive social systems and a wise

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circle of Elders everything is set up

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under the principle of sameness there is

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no contrast no great pain or inequality

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or suffering everything is orderly and

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perfect all the system systems work

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smoothly everyone is safe and there is

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no social or personal disharmony

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whatsoever even death is removed from

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society and rered a release from the

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community as you read further though

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this once Utopia slowly turns into a

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dystopia of a disturbing variety under

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the sameness it feels as if the very

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essence of life has been removed the

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main character slowly awakens to this

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dystopia after he was chosen to receive

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the dreams and memories of the world

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before the sameness he was mesmerized by

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the memories of cold and hot and snow

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and changes in the seasons he was

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overwhelmed by the Majesty of color

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because up until then everything in his

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world was whitewashed gray he realized

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that war suffering attachment and pain

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had been eradicated from his community

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but with them went love and a sense of

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family and excitement and Beauty in

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whitewashed equality there was no

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Vitality left in life without great pain

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and trials there was no joy and

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exultation there was no great grief

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sorrow or true feeling in total sameness

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there was no valleys or Peaks just a

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dull happiness that was not true

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happiness at all this book The Giver and

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others like the Brave New World by Aldis

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Huxley provide a beautiful warning for

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modern times when we try to legislate

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and manage Society to make everyone

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equal safe and happy life loses its zest

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its power its love personal Utopia or

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Collective Utopia is not earned through

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denying life and trying to fix it but

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only through affirming the struggle of

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life as it is every golden age of

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humanity from ancient Greece to the

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Renaissance has come from this heroic

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mentality of Life

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affirmation

Heroic suffering & the ubermensch

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n said in the genealogy of morals quote

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he even seeks it out provided he has

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shown a meaning for it a purpose of

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suffering the meaninglessness of

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suffering not suffering itself was the

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curse that lay over mankind so far all

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right here's the deal if you want to

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live an excellent life and bring forth

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your greatness from within you have to

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learn to see suffering as a good thing

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let me repeat that you need need to see

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suffering as a good thing even a great

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thing you must learn to embrace

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discomfort pain heart emotional distress

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and especially resistance and fear as

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worthy things and direct them towards

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your highest aim you see your highest

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form your most dominant life lies on the

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other side of the highest resistance if

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you want to become the man you could be

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you need to retrain mind to see

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resistance and pain and even suffering

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as positive things in life I just want

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to jump in here and say that I have an

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entire chapter in my book called heroic

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suffering and others unworthy aim and

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self-overcoming there's so much

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practical steps and philosophy and

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exercises in those chapters that I could

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never possibly hope to cover in a video

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like this so go read more in there in

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short to fully affirm life you must

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possess a strong enough why when the

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boxer aims to be a world champion all

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the Blood Sweat and Tears become

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meaningful rather than miserable most

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people wouldn't last one hour in his

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training but for him the pain only

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lights a fire in his spirit because he's

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committed to an ideal he lives above

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suffering in a sense I love the scene

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from Batman Begins where Bruce Wayne

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commits to becoming a symbol of

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something greater when we do this in our

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own own lives it puts all of our

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suffering in perspective because all of

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a sudden we have a purpose a meaning in

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the pain vigilante is just a man lost in

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the Scramble for his own gratification

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he can be destroyed or locked

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up

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but if you make yourself more than just

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a man if you devote yourself to an ideal

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and if they can't stop

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you then you become something else

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entirely

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which

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is Legend Mr

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Wayne this is the way of the warrior and

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the way of

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self-actualizers we must fix our sights

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on a worthy ideal that inspires us and

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dedicate ourselves wholeheartedly to

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Excellence in its fulfillment the Uber

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MCH is the highest aim of man in nich's

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eyes an idea we will investigate later

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but what's important here is that we

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choose to suffer willingly for something

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greater than our petty lives we must

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rise to the challenges of living and

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redeem the pain of life in some way this

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shift is literally the polar difference

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between the last man and higher types of

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individuals the higher types fight they

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fight to affirm their suffering and rise

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to overcome it in this overcoming they

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grow deeper and more powerful than ever

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before loneliness for instance is a good

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thing most don't see it that way most

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seek to escape it through Tinder

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drinking video games or shallow stupid

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relationships I've personally been

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dealing with a lot of feelings of

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loneliness this past month and it has

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been a practice not to distract myself

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or take just any hand extended toward me

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unless it is of the highest quality

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person sitting on the mountain by myself

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the other night a voice came to me it

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said loneliness is a gift channel that

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pain into deep creative and spiritual

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effort that voice was right I'll not

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always be alone or have such quality

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time for creative and spiritual depth so

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instead of longing for a different more

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easy reality I chose the one I have and

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brought the fire of my spirit into it

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that is the path n advised the path of

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self-overcoming of rising into adversity

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oddly enough suffering with honor and

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meaning tends to bring the most intense

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feelings of joy and connection with the

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profound world around me it brings me

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alive the internal shift towards heroism

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amidst hardship and discomfort is the

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key to your greatness but this skill

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cannot be taught you must figure out for

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yourself how to invoke the heroic spirit

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in your dark hours it is always hard the

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hero call is difficult to answer but

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absolutely transformative so many people

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let the weak voice in their heads win

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they live as a slave beneath fear

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resistance and suffering but the path of

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the warrior of the Uber MCH in a sense

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is to overcome these dragons and

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transmute Darkness into

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light for Life AFF firmers strength is

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the solution to suffering not comfort

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and safety if you wish to live the good

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life to thrive in excellence and Beauty

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you must become stronger you must learn

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to channel the the pain of life into

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deeper love wisdom and power Heroes rise

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to the occasion in the ordeal of living

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and this is your

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call if you want the full guide to n and

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heroism in the modern day I encourage

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you to get a copy of my new book the

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