Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick - Finding Superman - How did humanity get so soft? - Episode 111
Episode Date: October 7, 2025Finding Superman: How Did Humanity Get So Soft? Somewhere along the way, humanity traded its hunger for comfort—and in doing so, tamed the tiger within. In this episode, Dr. JC Doornick (The Dragon)... takes you on a journey from the streets of post-earthquake Haiti to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, exploring how society, culture, and convenience have softened our edge, silenced our will to power, and lulled us into complacency. Through stories, philosophy, and reflection, you’ll rediscover Nietzsche’s concept of the Übermensch—the human who dares to rise above conformity, reclaim meaning, and say yes to life even in the storm. This is not about judgment. It’s about remembering who we are, what we’re capable of, and what it takes to awaken the untamed creator within. Because the world doesn’t need more comfort, it requires more courage. The tiger’s still there—waiting for you to let it out of its cage. Make Sense? Listen now to learn how to reclaim your will to power, rise above victimhood, and rediscover your inner Superman. Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: ► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com ► Instagram: / drjcdoornick ►Facebook: / makessensepodcast ►YouTube: / drjcdoornick MAKES SENSE PODCAST Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is a subjective and acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW Podcast - You will find a "Follow" button on the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec Podcast Affiliates: Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster with 10 times retention from Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon OUR SPONSORS: Makes Sense Academy: A private mastermind and psychologically safe environment full of the Mindset and Action steps that will help you begin to thrive. The Makes Sense Academy. https://www.skool.com/makes-sense-academy/about The Sati Experience: A retreat designed for the married couple that truly loves one another, yet wants to take their love to that higher magical level. Relax, reestablish, and renew your love at the Sati Experience. https://www.satiexperience.com Highlights: 0:00 - Intro 2:34 - Topic Intro - Finding Superman - How’d we get so soft? 4:24 - The first time I woke up to humanity’s softness. 7:41 - Frederick Nietzsche’s Philosophies 8:48 - The Ubermensch “Superman” 12:17 - Softness 15:34 - Victimhood? 22:17 - How did we get so soft? 24:04 - To live fully, we must first die? 27:31 - The Second Step - Reframing Hardship 27:45 - The Third Step - To Choose Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Welcome to the Make Sense with Dr. J.C. podcast. This podcast covers topics that expand human consciousness
and performance. On the Make Sense podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works,
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So check out the Make Sense Academy risk-free for less than you'll spend today on shit that you don't
need. Welcome, my friends, to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Make Sense with
Dr. J.C. Dornick podcast. Makes Sense.
This is going to be a cool one. And all of the work that I do, whether it be my book, my substack,
or the Makes Sense with Dr. J.C. podcast is really just taking advantage of something that in such a
simple, subtle yet simple way and powerful way, if we can just allow ourselves to not let our
subconscious mind, our conditioned program subconscious mind, call the shots for the day,
which would require that we spend some time thinking for ourselves in a world that is
thinking for us, we're going to be positioned to become the dominant force creator and shock
hauler of our day. So the whole premise of the time that we spend together, it's just a time for you
to tap into that part of your brain, the prefrontal cortex, where you think. You'll know you're thinking
because I'll say something, then you'll go, hmm, which stands for, haven't made up my mind yet.
You just have this time to say, I don't know what I think about that. Let me think about that.
That's what it means to think for yourself, rather than let your automatic process,
that enables you to sleepwalk and make a sandwich without even knowing it to run the show.
So that's what our time together is, is to grab a fresh new perspective, a vantage point by your choice
to look at things so that the things that you look at begin to change. So let's get into this.
So I call this Finding Superman. How did humanity get so soft? I'm a big fan of the science of flow,
the flow state. And there's a lot of really cool videos and stuff about that. Just to give you a quick little snackable
about what this is going to be about so you can decide whether or not it's relevant for you.
Today we're going to explore how society, culture, and even comfort itself have tamed the tiger
within us. I don't know if you hear that and think that's good or a bad thing, but there's this
tiger inside of us, this thing that has been tamed. We're going to take a look at what it looks like
to reclaim what Frederick Nietzsche called your will to power. It's going to be a lot of Nietzsche
stuff today. So this is not about judgment.
Judgment is silly. Judgment is just a rendition of your depiction of reality. I mean, if you judge
something, it's just, I think it's just a waste of time. So this is not about judgment. It's about
remembering who we are and what we can become once we choose to just simply let the tiger out of the
cage, out of its imprisonment. So I was thinking about this, which made me say, hmm, which as a reminder
stands for I haven't made up my mind yet. Have you ever noticed that the world that we live in,
We all live in the same world.
It might look different to all of us, but we all live in the same world.
And that world that we live in didn't make us soft.
Like if you have anything that you're a little soft on, meaning you're afraid to do it
or you procrastinate it or something like that or you choose comfort versus discomfort,
we live in a world that didn't make us soft by accident.
And have you noticed how the world that we live in in many, many ways,
seems to be designed to keep us soft so that others can prosper.
That would be a place that we can validate taking a look under the hood of this one.
I mean, do you want to remain soft?
You might think that you're remaining comfortable or remaining happy and not pushing into
discomfort.
But what if you found out that you're being enticed to do that for the benefit of others?
That might be a way for you to prompt, hey, let me take a look at this rise up that he's doing.
And let me share a personal experience.
The first time I woke up to witness what I call humanity's softness was during a humanitarian
trip to Haiti.
So I had done a lot of humanitarian trip.
I was a doctor.
I created my own organization.
We were in Haiti after the earthquakes.
And we created this whole thing where we would take hundreds of doctors and thousands of
doctors and we would provide all of these services.
But it turned into a bit of an event and experience of sort.
So the first time that I witnessed society's softness,
humanity's softness is when I was in Haiti and we had brought together probably, as usual,
about another 100 health professionals.
And they were there to go through this experience that we had where they were able to serve
the less fortunate.
And they were doing that in the aftermath of that terrible earthquake that happened in Haiti.
I was just drawn to that and I ended up making it a big thing.
So we provided love, health care, food.
And we constructed basic shelters, schools and orphan.
And we rescued children. Children were just getting left in the streets and we were rescuing them and putting them in in shelters and orphanages and stuff. So just a lot of great stuff, right? A lot of lessons that I learned there. But at the end of the last day, the experience would always have like some sort of a guest speaker. Remember, I'm telling you about how I first woke up to the idea that humanity is getting soft. So we had this amazing guest speaker. His name was Dr. Patrick Jen Tempo. And Patrick's just a pioneer in the,
wellness industry. He's just a great guy, great human. And he was there to speak to the community and
all of these people that were just basking in service. And we would always have these speakers there with the
hopes that they would kind of share from their heart and help make sense of what everyone had just
gone through. Because when you're in an environment where you're giving, giving, giving, giving,
and serving, serving, serving very often, you can misunderstand what's really going on. By the way,
the biggest distinction, and this will come out in my book that I made when I was like a mission man,
is that I was actually doing it to feel better about myself.
Isn't that interesting?
That's irrelevant right here.
So he had brought his young son with him.
So he was like very, very exhausted and emotional.
It's exhausting to do that work.
And he opened up to this crowd of about 100 people.
He opened up by saying this.
He goes, how the hell did we get so fucking soft?
And that was his observation of spending the day out there
where people just have it really, really hard.
that's what woke him up to how soft we had become. And that was a big thing for me. That made me start
thinking, you know, and this was followed when he said that. It was followed by a pause. Like, he didn't
even know what to say after he was so entrenched in that thought. And he was just giving everybody time to
think. And it just turned into a very, very powerful conversation. As I said, it was what I would call an
awakening. An awakening is an interesting thing. An awakening can only happen if you've been asleep. What I mean by
that is I had been on some sort of autopilot, which we have a tendency to do, and asleep,
sleepwalking to this idea that we have been progressively getting soft. And sometimes you see it,
like, I love to put these pictures up of like a kid taking a dirt jump off of a bike in the 80s
and say, back then we used to do this and stuff like that. And everybody loves to bask in that.
Somehow this led me to a lot of Frederick Nietzsche's work. And I'm going to share some of that
with you today. So Frederick Nietzsche's philosophies, they were kind of made of dynamite, if you think about it. And the reason why I say dynamite is they were kind of designed to blow apart the illusions that have a tendency to keep us small, obedient, and asleep. I love that idea. And sometimes I like to look at my podcast as dynamite that is there to blow up the illusions that we often have because of our conditioned mind and society that we live in. So I like a little controversy every now and then a little disruption. So Nietzsche examined,
how society assigned meaning through things like religion, culture, and authority, and Nichi
rejected it. He just rejected it. So for him, when it came to meaning, he said the meaning of life
was not something to be acquired from the outside. I talk a lot about this operations manual
that we are handed at birth by our mother, father, teacher, preacher, society, and evolution.
So he doesn't like that idea, and I'm not a big fan of it either. He says that meaning is something that had to be
created by the individual, by you. So his answer to all of this stuff, this rejection of what he was
noticing, was something he called the Ubermensch, which translates to overman or Superman.
Now, we can say superhuman, but this is just coming from Nietzsche, so it's not a only man thing.
The Ubermensch refers to humans, men and women, more now than ever. This was introduced in his
work, if you want to take a look at it, something called Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
And the Ubermensch was not some sort of a god or mythical creature.
It was just the version of you, the version of human that dared to rise above conformity.
There's a version of us all that dares to rise above conformity.
And that's also attached to things like taking responsibility for the meaning of life.
I think that life is just one big struggle of whether or not you're going to take responsibility
for your life today.
Very easy to take responsibility for other people's lives, but tough to take responsibility.
responsibility for your own. So the Uber Mensch was in Nietzsche's eyes, the evolution of humanity,
the one who embraces and says yes to it all. And that includes life, hardship, all of it. Because of
learning that, I started to have a different answer when people would say, how are you today?
Hey, how are things? And I would just say, it's all good. So that was like a cue to remind myself to
allow my tiger to come out of the cage, meaning embrace it all. And we'll get a little bit more.
into that. So at the center of Nietzsche's vision was one of his most famous claims. And here's the way it
goes. He said, the world is the will to power and nothing else. Absorb that for a second. You know,
sometimes it's hard for us to admit that we're all value-seeking missiles, meaning we don't think, say,
or do anything that doesn't have value. And the reason why that's hard is because we think that that
means that we're selfish, but it's true. You wouldn't be here right now had you not determine that it
had some sort of value to you or value-seeking missiles.
But when it comes to power, and this is kind of like Gay Hendricks' work from the big leap
about limiting barriers, if you ever want to hear Gay Hendricks stuff, first of all,
his book is just one of my top five favorites, but he was a guest on my podcast.
But when it comes to power, sometimes we're taught to not outshine others, and that power
is a bad thing.
In the wrong hands, it could be, but we all have a will to power.
So the will to power is not only about dominance and tyranny.
It's the underlying force of life itself, our drive to grow, to overcome, to expand beyond what is.
Are you done?
Or are you interested and curious to expand in some way, physically, mentally, financially, beyond what is?
I like to live in the present moment, but I still have some things I'm moving towards.
I'm not done yet.
And that could just be experiencing things.
It's that final push.
that is required, that forces maybe a seed to break through the soil. Another way of looking at it is
that final push that helps a child go from crawling to sitting to standing, to walking. And the one that
fuels the innovator inside of us all to risk everything for an idea. Have you ever risked everything
for an idea? That would be your ubermensch. And it's the source code of existence, as Nietzsche says.
And yet, here's the observation that we can take a look at.
at, which requires your prefrontal cortex, right? This is not coming from your lower level of your brain.
We're going to take a look at something right now, but look around. What do you see? You see comfort,
abundance, convenience, victimhood, and in general, what I call softness. Now, I'm not saying
softness is a good or a bad thing. I'm just pointing it out and calling it something. So somewhere along the
way, the tiger inside us became tamed. You can look back at other times and just say, hey, I'm glad that I don't
have to go through those things, but things were a lot harder back then. So let's talk about this
idea of taming the tiger. When it comes to taming the tiger, Nietzsche's world was absolutely still
full of hardship. I don't know if you know this, but Frederick Nietzsche actually died from
some form of Alzheimer's or dementia. He actually lost his mind and that was it for him. And a lot of
people said he was so introverted and went so deep with his thoughts that he never found his way
out. Isn't that interesting? But his world was full of hardship, war, poverty, illness, and survival. So he
comes from that perspective. Today, most of us in developed nations no longer face those struggles.
We might have those things, but we don't face the struggles like we used to, which is a good thing,
in my eyes. So the modern day has wrapped us in conveniences. And if you don't notice these things,
you won't notice these things. Food is delivered at the click of a button. Climate controlled homes that
keep temperature to our liking. I woke up this morning and I said to my wife, it's too cold in here.
It's too cold. And because we're kind of in transition and we're probably going to put the heat on now and
I'm probably going to say, oh, it's too hot. So climate controlled temperatures to our liking as well as
homes that keep us safe from storms. Isn't that nice? There's a reason to wake up in the morning and say,
thank you and look up and see a roof over your head and feel snugly in your blankets. So technology handles
tasks that once demanded sweat and grit. And is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know and I'm not
sure I care. I just want to point it out and think and slow down the computer and the program and think.
So it always depends on how we look at things. So in one sense, I could say this is progress,
but progress has a shadow. I love that. Progress has a shadow, doesn't it? The very forces that comfort us
can also have a tendency of dulling us down. Am I right? So the
drive to overcome, the will to power seems to have atrophied. That's the observation. And I say
seems, I could very well be wrong. I've been wrong many times. We're becoming a species that
avoids discomfort rather than embraces it. Why bother? If we can avoid discomfort,
we're wired for that now. Now, we hear in personal growth that we should move towards discomfort
because growth takes place out of the comfort zone, but we're kind of losing sight of that. Why bother? If you,
If you can be comfortable, why bother?
So even in personal growth, some of the grates, the gurus,
we see remnants from these gurus prompting us to do the work, to suck it up,
to embrace the suck, and to grind and have grit.
But then we all return back to our beautiful air-conditioned homes,
and we seem to be retreating from the very conditions that once forged things like resilience
and prompted the opportunity for things like perseverance.
So does this mean we're doomed?
I don't think so.
We're just going to start waking up to stuff.
So let's talk about victimhood.
Where did victimhood come from?
So it doesn't seem to stop at comfort.
As convenience grew, so did this strange new form of identity that is called victimhood.
Where did that come from?
Who was the first person that just posed as a victim and stayed there?
Because it's everywhere right now.
It's a business.
It's a business.
So we begin defining ourselves less by what we could endure and more by what has happened.
to us. We live in a society that defines its reality, shapes its reality by explaining what has
happened to us. That's why it's such a dangerous thing to say something like, how are you today?
Very often people will say, oh boy, let me tell you things have been hard. We all want to compare
our hearts with one another, don't? The narrative shifted from, I overcame this to I have suffered.
Life became progressively unfair, and it seems to be continuing to become progressively unfair.
I see it everywhere.
People complaining that things are unfair and dressing it up as them standing up for justice.
Now, I'm not saying I'm on one side or the other.
It's just an observation coming from my part of the brain that uses thought.
So Nietzsche would warn us if he knew about what was going on today.
Be careful not to let old wounds become who you are.
So to him, victimhood was the opposite of creation.
So that's one of the problems I have with being a victim is it takes me out of the creative
process and that is where I long to be.
And that's what I love about Substack is the creative process.
When I interview people on the writer's way, that's all I really want to know is where'd
you come up with that?
To Nici, victimhood was the opposite of creation.
It was a surrender of that will to power.
Instead of saying yes to life, victimhood says,
life has defeated me, and that's not fair. That's not fair. So modern culture amplified by social media,
social media came and is like, hey, we've got this cool tool that we can all speak to each other,
but we didn't know what we were getting. In addition to that, social media rewards this whole
stance of victimhood, and it keeps us quiet. Remember how I opened up and says,
we don't live in a world that made us soft by mistake. We live in a world that is kind of designed to
keep us soft. How are you being kept a customer of softness in your life right now? And if you're not
willing to understand and look at that and admit it, I get it. I would probably be prompted to not
as well, but it's very powerful when you can identify things that you're tolerating that don't
need to be tolerated. So modern culture amplified by social media rewards this stance.
outrage, grievance, and sensitivity often get more attention than resilience and strength.
You see that on the news.
We see negative things.
Victims like to watch victims on TV, don't they?
If you're a victim and you see another victim, kind of makes you feel a little bit better
about your victimhood.
So they resonate with them.
Nietzsche would shake his head if he were alive.
He would see society has become addicted to being wronged instead of rising.
There's something called the drum major instinct.
I have something in my life called my board of directors, and this is a fun thing for you to do.
In my office, on the walls, I have people that I go to. They've all passed away to ask questions
when I'm struggling in life. And one of those people is Mandela's up there, Gandhi's up there.
One of those is Martin Luther King. So Dr. Martin Luther King described something very, very similar,
a similar force when he spoke of something called the Drum Major Instinct. And that's that inborn desire
that we have as humans to be significant, to lead a band in the parade and matter ultimately.
I think that's what we all want. I think in the last 10 minutes of your life, you're going to
reflect back and say, did I matter? Think about that. You're not going to think about all the things
you're worried about right now. You're going to ask, did I make my time count? So we have this desire
to be significant, to be the leader in the band, and ultimately have that desire to matter.
Martin Luther King's challenge was not to extinguish this instinct, but to channel it towards service
and justice for all of humanity. We run away from power and responsibility because of its
perception that it's attached to overwhelm. And that's another hidden barrier that Gay Hendricks
talks about in the big leap. We back away from things because we're afraid of being successful
and overwhelmed by it. So Martin Luther King is just reframing that and saying with power comes
responsibility, but also the ability to make lasting change for all of humanity. And we all have this
inside of us. You don't have to let other people do these things. So Nietzsche, in his own way, said the same
thing as king. Don't deny the will to power. Own it, direct it, create with it. The Ubermensch is the one
who takes that instinct to lead and channels it into becoming a creator of meaning. Nothing has meaning
without you giving it meaning. So you are the creator of meaning. What that means is that you can
give whatever meaning you want to something. But just make sure that the meaning you're giving something
has not been given to you by somebody else because that's soft. So the creator of meaning,
a builder of values, a force that rises rather than retreats. And yet here we are in a world that
teaches us the complete opposite and it starts right from school. We tell children to sit still,
not to question authority, not to rock the boat. We teach them the nuance of, if you don't succeed,
well, we used to say, try and try again, but now they say, if you don't succeed, well, then just
simply try something else. Houston, we have a problem. We train workers to follow systems rather
than innovate. All of the biggest companies and the biggest leaders give the keys of innovation
to their employees. That's why they have such great family organizations in their staffing,
in their organizations. We reward compliance today rather than courage. So it's no wonder that the
instinct has turned inward evolving into apathy or exploding into destructive ways. So when you see
apathy and destructive ways, now you understand what's going on behind the scenes. Don't hate the
player, hate the game. I never get angry at people that are manipulating the system. I mean,
it's not that I encourage them and I don't advocate for them. But if somebody's out there to make
money right now, you're going to probably be doing something that's not advantageous to humanity.
That's where all the money is in many cases. So how did we get so soft? So the answer is simple.
We got comfortable and innovation is promising more of it. The absolute truth is this.
We seem to be mistaking comfort with progress. Does comfort equate to progress? Take a look around
and look at the innovations and advancements, the ease that is promoted through technological advancing,
AI, everything like that.
The perception is that that is progress.
Nietzsche would say, I'm not sure about that.
So we're latching onto the idea that the elimination of struggle is the achievement of life
and the meaning that we all search.
The elimination of struggle is the way.
But the Stoics said the obstacle is the way.
But struggle was never the enemy.
It was the training ground.
I just spoke to a coach today that I'm mentoring and I was just saying fall in love with the work.
Fall in love with the training that you're going to get today by doing the work and detach from the
outcome and expectations of the things that are out of your control like whether or not people
are going to become clients of yours.
Fall in love with the training just like you do in the gym.
I don't get attached to a flex down at the end of a gym.
Usually I walk out there with my tail between my legs but I'm in love with the work.
It's a training ground.
That's what it is, isn't it? When we eliminated discomfort in our society, we also eliminated the very
soil in which our superhero can grow. So the result is a culture that is shrinking now. We are shying away
from hard work, hesitating at tough decisions. Why do we hesitate at tough decisions? They're the
ones that we need to go after, right? And avoiding challenges that might leave a scar. All things that
lead to the growth and success that you desire, unless you've given up on it. So the result is this
shrinking culture. But Nietzsche would argue this. Those scars are sacred. They are proof that you have lived,
evidence that you have trained. The scars are evidence that you have trained and proof that you dare to say yes
to life even when it is brutal. Do you accept the challenge when life gets challenging? The Uber
Minch doesn't ask for an easy road. It demands the mountain to conquer. And you all have that inside of you,
to demand the mountain to conquer. Nietzsche also taught that life requires us.
us to die many times. This is a very interesting concept, and it doesn't mean like actual death.
He once wrote this, you must be willing to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew
if you have not first become ashes? Man, think about that. Isn't that the truth? I can tell you that my
biggest tragedies and failures have shaped who I am today. That's for sure. So for Nietzsche,
transformation meant death. And here's what I mean by this. This is a really cool concept if you
grasp it. Not just the final death of the body. That's not what he was talking about, but the daily
deaths of old beliefs, identities, and comforts dying away. Things that no longer apply, that no longer
serve us. The death of who we were yesterday so that we can become who we are to emerge as today.
So this constant cycle of dying and rising is what makes growth possible, yes or no. However,
most of us resist it. We cling to jobs, relationships, and labels that no longer serve us. Why? Because,
letting them go feels too risky and like dying.
But Nietzsche would say, good, that death is necessary.
There's a great book called Necessary endings that I recommend to everybody.
So the Uber Munch, created by Nietzsche, is forged through a thousand deaths and rebirths,
through the courage to let go of what no longer fits.
I experienced this firsthand, by the way, in the jungles of the Amazon, and I went
probably about four or five years ago to experience plant medicine, and I won't get too deep
into that, but I experienced what it was like to have ego death. And that was an example of me
shedding something that no longer served me. And I created a new ego. So every time we burn away an old
version of ourselves, we clear the way for something new and more substantial, freer, more alive.
It's a different way to reframe and approach struggle. So Superman, Superwoman, is not found by
holding on to things. It's unveiled by letting go again and again. That's what
Nietzsche was saying. So let's talk about reclaiming this. So where do we go from here? Let's make this
relevant for the day. Where do we go from here? And how do we, in Nietzsche's words, become what and who
we are truly meant to be? Well, first of all, you'd want to do that. Remember, the first step to having a
massive awakening is the recognition that you're asleep. If you don't want to acknowledge that you're
sleepwalking in certain elements of your life, well, then an awakening is not in your cards today.
So you'd have to really, really think about that.
So the first step in reclaiming your superhuman is this,
remembering that the will to power has not disappeared.
It's still in you.
That tiger, it might be tame, but it's still in you.
It only has been silenced and forgotten.
Every human carries within them that instinct to rise,
the drum major instinct, to create, to lead.
You know that's still inside of you.
The tiger has been tamed, but not killed.
You need not believe in this,
because this just is.
The second step is this, reframing hardship.
Instead of seeing challenges as punishment, see them as your training ground.
Muscles don't grow without resistance and being torn down.
Neither does the human spirit.
Love this.
Third step to choose.
Probably the hardest thing.
Nietzsche never promised this path would be easy, but he made it clear that the alternative is
worse.
I always say, what's the risk associated with?
with trying versus doing nothing.
Doing nothing carries the bigger risk, and it's a guarantee.
But he made it clear that the alternative is worse.
Take the blue pill, matrix reference,
take the blue pill and continue to shrink into victimhood,
like most people, to surrender into apathy,
to live small, and that is like death while you're still alive,
to just allow that to happen.
That's the blue pill.
Or choose to take the red pill
and select the inconvenient, unknown,
an inconvenient path of the extraordinary super creator that you are, that embraces that all is necessary.
Everything is necessary. And you know this, but you'd have to embrace it. I believe that the saying is
true. Life actually does suck and then you die. If you really think about it, for the most part,
life is full of suck and then we die, which is why I have chosen to continuously learn to dance in
the rain and embrace the suck. Why? I want to have a great life. And if most of life is
adversity and suck, well, then I'm going to learn how to enjoy that. If everything that we desire,
especially the great stuff, sits mysteriously and inconveniently on the other side of a big
pile of poop, well, I'm going to learn how to traverse, go under, through, and sometimes
even realize that it's not there, the poop. I'm going to be a poop navigator. So this amounts
to a bigger life experience if that's something interesting to you. So the storms will come.
The question is not if they will come, but how will you meet them as a victim or a creator?
As tamed or untamed, as small or as a superhuman.
So my final thought, Nietzsche didn't hand us a map.
And I'm not handing you a map here today.
I'm just pointing something out and I hope that it was a benefit to you.
He gave us a stick of dynamite.
That's what Nietzsche gave us.
He challenged us to take a look at this and his challenge was not to follow, but to take
this stick of dynamite and explode the walls that look to keep us small. That's what you need.
And maybe this awakening today is your stick of dynamite that will help you explode the walls
that look to keep you small. He wanted us to rise, not in the afterlife, which is not a guarantee.
You can hope that that's the case. But a lot of people will say, this is it. You're in heaven right now.
This is it. This is your shot. So don't wait for the afterlife. But here, now, in the mother.
of existence, this world yields and provides us every day. Somebody said the other day, I've been praying
to God for the key to what I'm looking for. And I said, well, what are you trying to build a
freaking piano? Because every morning, the big guy in the sky lets us wake up and live, that's the key.
You got too many keys. We just have to take the key and turn it. That's what we need to do today.
So this world that we live in, this is heaven on earth. It yields everything you need,
including the will to power and nothing else, as Nietzsche would say. The only question left is this.
Will you claim it and reclaim it? Will your Superman rise again? Make sense? So as I always say,
thank you so much. If you learn something today, please give it away, pay this forward. Share the
podcast, share my substack, share your substack. Let's all grow together. You learn something today. Give it
away because that's the way it's going to stay. So have a nice day and we'll see you next time. Bye,
by now.
