What Nietzche, John B. Calhoun, and David Goggins have to teach us all.

Published: June 24, 2021, 8:55 p.m.

Here is where I returned to the 'being uncomfortable' as the optimum state for the human creature. We either grow or we atrophy.
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\nNIMH national Institute of Mental Health. Did a long term study. Give  mice everything they need. No stress. No want. Were they happy? Nope.  They stopped breeding. became what the Doc called 'the beautifuls' who  preened and not much else. He posited. 40 years ago. We had two possible  outcomes as a human creature. A globalist tribalism without any  evolution, trapped. Or a slow decline, like the mice. They all died off,  spoiler.
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\n"Companions, the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions, the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. ... Fellow creators, Zarathustra seeks, fellow harvesters and fellow celebrants: what are herds and shepherds and corpses to him?"

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Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Thus spoke Zarathustra
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\n\u201cThe most important conversations you\u2019ll ever have are the ones you\u2019ll have with yourself. You wake up with them, you walk around with them, you go to bed with them, and eventually, you act on them. Whether they be good or bad. We are all our own worst haters and doubters because self-doubt is a natural reaction to any bold attempt to change your life for the better. You can\u2019t stop it from blooming in your brain, but you can neutralize it, and all the other external chatter by asking, What if?\u201d \u2013 David Goggins