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In this video, I talk about Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, fate, and greatness.

In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche wrote, “[my] formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity. Not merely to endure that which happens of necessity, still less to dissemble it — all idealism is untruthfulness in the face of necessity — but to love it.” So according to Nietzsche, the way you become great is by loving your fate.

And what does it mean to become great? For Nietzsche, I think greatness means becoming nothing other than what you are. Greatness is the fulfilment of your destiny. It’s growing into your highest potential. It’s the acorn becoming the oak tree. See, the acorn contains the potential to become the mighty oak tree within it, but unless it learns to overcome itself, it will not achieve that greatness. And Nietzsche says the way to this greatness is amor fati.

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