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How Winning Boosts a Person's "Will to Power" (And How to Apply That to Political Victories)

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  "The world is the will to power and nothing besides." Friedrich Nietzsche Some people mistake Nietzsche's quote as a call to crush any who stand in your way to when you have set a goal. No, it is a call for personal growth and becoming the best you can be.  You will only be fulfilled as a person if you can master yourself and your environment, And that can mean setting goals to become physically fit, have a strong family or stand up for your principles.  However, while this is mostly a factor of your personality and even soul, there is another extremely important component - a hormone called testosterone. Many people think testosterone is merely a male hormone that helps make muscles grow.  That is partly true.  Actually, men and women both make testosterone, though males have much higher levels.  And yes, it is very important in fitness and muscle development, but one factor people forget, even in regard to fitness, is that it is a motivational hormone....

Will Our Loss of Connection Lead to Techno Assimilation?

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Note: Check out the link at the bottom of the page to visit my YouTube channel. Links to my books are there as well.          I was speaking to a young woman today who has an interest in the topic of artificial intelligence. I asked her if she would accept the idea of being merged with a computer and losing her conscious; becoming an avatar of the computer. She asked if she would be more efficient and I noted she would be, but she, herself, would be dead while her brain and body functioned in an enhanced manner. She said she would really like that and that it could solve many of today's social ills if everyone had that done to them...it would be the perfect society that had no racism, hate, war, pollution, waste of resources, etc. In other words, a giant ant colony run by a "queen" AI system. People would still reproduce, but at a certain age they would get the implant and cease to exist as individuals. It would be the final evolution of the indus...