The Importance of Creativity

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Zarathustra is saying that you should strive to create something bigger and beyond yourself. That could be the Superman. It's something that Ernest Becker talks a lot about in denial of death to right pyramid building. John Gray invokes these studies that kind of show that we're not actually using any free will to make these decisions.

What I learned from Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Timestamps

(2:30) Readwise (03:40) God is Dead (06:28) What Do You Worship (08:41) Creating Something Beyond Yourself (10:27) No Soul, No Free Will (12:45) Worshipping the State (13:59) The Superman (16:43) Old Virtues Are Cowardice (19:25) The Good and Bad of Christian Morals (21:25) The Myth of Equality (26:16) Marriage and Children (30:41) The Will to Power (Power Motivates Us) (33:19) Good and Evil Don’t Exist (36:15) Eternal Recurrence

Books Mentioned

This is Water: https://geni.us/this-is-water-nat The Fourth Turning: https://geni.us/fourth-turning-nat Straw Dogs: https://geni.us/straw-dogs-nat The Denial of Death: https://geni.us/denial-death-nat Man’s Search for Meaning: https://geni.us/mans-search-nat The Comfort Crisis: https://geni.us/comfort-crisis-nat The Lessons of History: https://geni.us/lessons-history-nat Letters from a Stoic: https://geni.us/letters-stoic-nat

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