 Greetings my esteemed Laddingtons. I'm checking in from a beautiful winter landscape I'm in search of a spirit an ancient Scandinavian hunter-gatherer spirit who can hopefully bless me with additional powers of primordial strength and esoteric wisdom We'll see if I encounter such a spirit. Hopefully we'll see. I will update you all if I experience a sudden burst of powers Now as you see in the title I thought to talk a bit about good old Nietzsche and the good old Temple of Iron. Now, I haven't read all of Nietzsche's books yet, perhaps I will someday, but I have read enough to be able to interpret his wishes at least. I do believe he would want us to train in the Temple of Iron and to post physique. Now the reason I say this is the following He teaches us that man is something to be overcome and We must embark upon the path to the overman Now I have talked about alchemy before on this channel and of course on In my great book reviews, which I'll read. I hope If you don't read all of my book reviews, you will not make it. You're not gonna make it You must repent by fasting for 24 hours. You need to do this within a week As a way to repent for not having read my book reviews. Now anyway, alchemy I'm not an expert here either, but what we can say is of course that the great work of creating gold within yourself It goes on. It always goes on. You can always, you know, hammer and chisel out some more Purity within you and you know, remove impurities So you can view alchemy in a similar way as the path of the overman that you continuously overcome yourself by removing Faults and weaknesses in you. So Nietzsche doesn't say as far as I know at least he doesn't say that you have to train in the temple of iron but if we look at that particular teaching of his that continuously overcoming yourself the gym offers this in a very In a very tangible and accessible manner that you can go into the gym to overcome yourself every time basically so you have a lot of guys we can call them the Ironic guys often liberals often atheists often this Smug archetype if you know what I mean, there's smug in everything they do So they would say to you if you say I will go into the gym to get stronger in the bench press And then they will say oh, why do you need a big chest for why do you need to be strong in this particular? Exercise in this particular movement. This is how they would view it because they don't understand they don't view The world they don't view life in a holistic manner now, of course for us enlightened individuals We know that everything is connected mind and body are connected If you take care of your body you take care of your mind vice versa So then to take my own training at the moment as an example do you care if I take 180 as my one rep max in the bench press or if I take 190 Both are quite impressive if I may be so bold The big difference though is that if I do manage in a few weeks time or a few months to get 190 or even 200 say it isn't all too big of a difference in the eyes of others Doesn't really need to be as long as I know that I have overcome Myself in a very tangible manner that I can point to yes, this is what I did Here's how I did it via discipline will power magic I managed to overcome myself and to take a few more steps on the path of the overman So do view the gym in a holistic manner that it's not about How strong you are necessarily compared to others and of course that can be interesting in other regards, but we were talking about the Path of the overman of the alchemical process of the great work Yeah, it's about you going in overcoming yourself and That creates a good momentum now talked about momentum before momentum is a goddess and she loves When you have these victories stacking up so you can have a very small victory Maybe it's insignificant to anyone else that you've increased your bench press with Five kilos, but it's a victory for you That will create a good momentum that you can use to go further along on the path of the overman So that is essentially how you can view it. That is how you can apply Nietzsche's teaching in your life. So it's a very tangible and accessible way to go along the path of the Overman now, of course, it's hardly the only path you can take you can take a lot of different paths But it's a very yeah again keep I keep using this word accessible, but it is very accessible So so yeah, that is at least how I would interpret the This particular teaching so thank you for watching. I will keep you all updated on my gym progress xxO boom