In a previous post, I promised to reveal to you the simple techniques that facilitate a radical change in mental focus, stopping negative thoughts dominating your life and allowing only the most positive thoughts to hold sway. It’s about detoxifying the mind, diminishing both bad memories and worries about your future that disempower you and amplifying those that make you stronger instead. How to forget negative thoughts: Firstly, it is important to understand why we are so p

Most people are familiar with this most famous aphorism of Friedrich Nietzsche’s: ‘What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.’ There’s a common criticism of this idea – it’s that it’s clearly wrong. Nietzsche seems to be suggesting that experiences of adversity or suffering toughen us up. But, people object, what about irreversible paralysis? Or losing a child? Or conditions like chronic depression? Do these make a person stronger? It seems highly improbable. In these cases, qui

Now we are going to look at training your mind to prime you for success in every area of your life. First it’s necessary to recap what we have learnt so far about the importance of memory. According to Nietzsche, the exceptional human ability to remember the past and imagine the future stems from the violent foundation of the ‘civilised’ state itself. That state required that its citizens firmly retain knowledge of their debts and oaths and have a vivid mental image of their