In our last post we examined Nietzsche's 'drives-theory' of the individual and how these drives might be controlled and organised to bring us success in self-mastery. This time we look at actual practical techniques which clinical trials have demonstrated give us the best possible chance of eliminating old and unhelpful behaviours and of cultivating new, high-performing habits. In a previous career I used to run a service helping hundreds of people quit smoking. The technique

In our last post we examined the controversial concept of the Will to Power, the genealogical understanding of the self and Nietzsche’s theory of the human drives. In this post, we look at how the drives are corralled and coordinated to bring us success in self-mastery. ORGANISING CHAOS It is important to be able to recognise our drives and work with them if we are to make positive changes. Your observations of the activity of your drives should be recorded in your journal. W

‘What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that a resistance is overcome.’ The Antichrist Statements like this have caused readers’ monocles to fall into their martinis for nearly a century and a half and given Friedrich Nietzsche's name a dangerous and transgressive air. At first glance, it appears the mustachioed German fir