What Does Not K*ll You Makes You Stronger – Or Bitter and Jaded
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger or weaker, bitter and jaded.
Which is true.
I'll talk a bit about it in this fine video.
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Now on to the teaching at hand.
Perhaps you've heard it and of course it's a good, it's a good mentality, it's a good attitude to have.
You know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
But I always need to be truthful.
I always need to be open and honest with you.
And I'm here to tell you that making mistakes is always bad.
Losing is always bad.
So the best approach is to learn from the mistakes of others.
If someone says to you that it's good to make mistakes, it's not good to make mistakes.
It's bad to make mistakes.
Try to avoid mistakes.
Now it's hard, especially if you approach life in a high themos.
Now I know it's supposed to be theumos in Greek.
Any Greek speaker can correct me if I am wrong right here.
Theumos.
But I'm saying theumos because I've done so for so many years.
Now anyway, to my point is that you should approach life in a life-affirming way, in a high themos way.
You should take risks and therefore you will probably make mistakes, you will probably encounter losses.
But what I want to say in this video is that do try to minimize the risks, do try to optimize your chances.
I've talked about the rune pertho before.
I write about it in Demigod Mentality as well.
That the better you prepare for something, the higher your chances of a successful outcome.
If you play any sort of strategy game, I'm an enjoyer of Warhammer for example, you know that yes, there is an element of chance with the dice, but the better you position your models, the better you position your pieces on the gaming board, the higher the chances of luck finding you, the higher the chances are of a successful outcome.
So this is how you should approach life as well.
That yes, there will be a risk.
There will be a risk in anything.
We can talk about business for example.
You will have to take risks, like it or not.
But you can try to position everything in such a way that you limit the risk, that you optimize the chances of success by studying the mistakes of others, by preparing as much as possible, so that when you take that leap of faith, which you will have to take often, and this can be true for anything in life, really.
It can be a sensitive young man who approaches a young fair maiden.
There is an element of risk.
Maybe she will reject you.
So you need to prepare as much as possible.
You need to have, you know, be well-groomed, be well-dressed, be polite, well-spoken.
You need to be charming and everything like that.
You need to prepare to the best of your abilities.
There is still the risk that she will reject your conversation or whatever it might be.
Or if we're talking about business, it might be there is a risk that you will lose, that you will make mistakes.
But do try to, you know, prepare as much as possible.
Do your homework before so that you can say to yourself, should you, God forbid, should you lose, should you make a mistake, should you fail in your endeavor, you can at least say to yourself that I couldn't have known.
I did the preparation to the best of my abilities, despite that it was not meant to be.
The last thing you want to do is to take a big risk, lose, and then the thought will haunt you that you should have known better.
So, this is what I mean: that you will have to take risks, especially to my young audience here.
You will have to take risks to get ahead in life no matter what you do.
But for your own sake, do try to learn from the mistakes.
Do try to learn from the mistakes of others.
Talk to older guys, guys who've been in the same, you know, who have walked a similar path as you.
Ask them, is this a good course of action?
And they might say, It's not a good course of action, or they might say, Yes, it is a good course of action, but think about these other things.
So, when I went to university, for example, in one of the introductory speeches, one teacher held, he said that you should, of course, try to pursue good grades and everything like that, but you also need to engage in other things while you are here at the university.
You cannot only study, you also need to be engaged in, you know, other activities because ultimately, the path to success is also about who you know.
So, this good advice he gave, and I listened to it as well.
Because the older generation, perhaps some older boomers, will say that, you know, go to school, get good grades, and then you will get a good work.
That's, you know, the advice might come from a good place, but we all know that's not quite how it works.
So, I was quite grateful for this lecture this particular teacher held, and he said that you need to engage yourself in other things as well.
So, that was some insight.
And by the way, when you're listening to insights from older guys, you don't need to necessarily admire the guys.
It can just be the case that they've lived for 15 years more than you.
So, they have accumulated mistakes.
They can share the lessons they paid a heavy price for, and you can, you know, take on board the lesson without actually paying for it.
Because that's also something you can think about: mistakes.
It's a very expensive lesson.
You don't want to pay for the mistake.
Sometimes you simply have to, you know, say to yourself, Yeah, I made a mistake, I will pay for it.
This is a very, very expensive mistake.
This is a good attitude, but the best attitude is to do your homework before you don't make these mistakes.
So, you're not injured.
And we can take such a thing as a physical injury as well.
Sometimes you will be injured.
There is no real silver lining to it.
If you get injured, it's bad.
What you can do when you get injured is to try to pursue other venues of progression.
So, I have a friend recently got injured, and I said to him, you know what, you can try to get better at meditating or doing breath work or something like that.
You can't do any heavy deadlifts over the next couple of weeks or even months.
So, you need to find something else to progress in.
So, that is the high thumbs approach to life: that whatever happens, you will try to find something that you can get better at, that you can progress in.
But when you do get injured, you might end up bitter and jaded.
This is, you know, the brutal truth.
It's not so fun for me to talk about.
It's not so, you know, positive, but we also need to be honest here to say that if you injure yourself, it is bad and it will probably haunt you for quite some time to come.
I struggled with an elbow injury for much of last year.
Now, it's better, but still, in my mind, there is a before and after date of the injury.
Now, I know that, yes, I cannot do, you know, chins on any of the trees here because I might injure myself again.
So, there is that worry, there is that fear.
Now, very important to keep in mind that you shouldn't be paralyzed by fear.
You shouldn't, you know, have this paralysis by analysis.
You need to take risks, but do it in a calculated way.
This is the difference between being brave and being reckless.
Being brave is that you overcome yourself, you overcome your fears, but you do it in a strategic and intelligent way.
Being reckless is to just take a leap of faith without actually planning before actually preparing.
So know the difference, and especially if we're talking about such a thing as the metapolitical struggle, the political struggle to save European civilization, we cannot afford to be reckless.
We need to be brave because it takes courage.
I would know.
I've been at it for 10 years.
It does take courage and you need to overcome fear.
So you need to do it in an intelligent way because if you do it in a reckless way, you're leaving yourself open to being hit by being struck down by the enemy.
Metaphorically speaking, of course.
So also, I've said this for so many years now that central to my teaching is that you should overcome fears, you should overcome yourself, you should continuously try to get better.
And that, you know, includes an element of venturing out outside the comfort zone, outside what is known to you.
You need to overcome many of these things to go forward.
So the only thing you can do is to prepare yourself accordingly.
So when you take that step, the next step on the path to the overman, I made a video where I Nietzsche posted a bit about a year or two ago.
I said that the path to the overman is to continuously get better.
Now, for every step you take, it's a step into the unknown.
It can be, but make sure at least that you are well informed for every step you take.
So you don't, you know, stumble and fall and you fall down into the abyss.
So yeah, that's something to to keep in mind at all times.
So to conclude this hopefully insightful video is that you will have to take risks.
You will probably make mistakes, but do endeavor to learn from the mistakes of others.
Do endeavor to limit the amount of mistakes, because they can accumulate and they can leave scars on you mental scars and they will, you know, eventually they can make you bitter and jaded.
I've been a bit bitter and jaded myself over this last year because i've taken many heavy blows and i'm saying that it's not good.
Uh, because it has halted my momentum a bit.
Now i've tried to work up the thumbs and momentum again.
I'm writing on my book now it feels good enough, but it's not nice, it's not good.
So keep that in mind also, that you will have to take risks, but calculate the risks.
View life view, business view, whatever you're doing as a strategy game, position your models, position your pieces in such a way that, whatever when you roll the dice, that whatever the dice might show might be a one, it might be a six.
You have a response to it and you are prepared to, you know, act accordingly.
Same thing if we're talking about fighting.
If you drop your god, you will be knocked out.
You can't just come in to.
You know, throw a haymaker, it might land, it might not.
You might Drop your guard, you might get knocked out.
So, it's good to keep your guard up at all times, calculate everything you do.
So, again, you will have to take risks.
And the last thing you want to do is to find yourself on the other side of having made a mistake.
And then you look back and say to yourself, I should have known better, I should have thought about this and that.
Now, if you make a mistake, despite preparing accordingly, it's just what happens.
Sometimes it happens, it happens to the best of us.
Then, it's just a matter of you know approaching it in a stoic fashion and say to yourself that it is what it is.
So, if you've prepared accordingly, you make a mistake, it is what it is.
So, anyway, I hope that was somewhat insightful.
Thank you for your support, and thank you for watching.
