Siege is this whole idea of your inner citadel or your best version of you, right? Yes. The ancient Chinese philosophers Confucis and Lao Su talked about being your sage - the stoics variously talk about either an inner sage or a sage that you're interested in. And I actually prefer that idea of it being inner rather than outer. What Nietzsche referred to as the Uberman: You're going to create the best version of yourself and then give it a little sprinkling of steroids.

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