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Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the precursors
of existentialism, which emphasized the idea

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that the human being is a free and responsible
agent, capable of determining his own actions

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in life through acts of will.

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He was one of the greatest and most unusual
philosophers and in line with the theory of

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existentialism, he preached about the importance
of being a free spirit.

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According to Nietzsche, a free spirit is someone
who is able to be in charge of his own actions,

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who is capable of formulating his own worldview,
free of prejudices and social norms, who is

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not dependent on his relationships with other
people, and who has the courage to be authentic

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and fight against the tyranny of popular beliefs.

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In some ways, we, the inhabitants of current
democracies, are an initial version of what

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Nietzsche called “free spirits”, or in
other words, we have great potential to be

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free spirits, most of our societies being
characterized by moral liberality.

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However, we are still far from the original
definition of “free spirit” that Nietzsche

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envisioned.

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He wrote several books, like “Thus Spoke
Zarathustra”, “Beyond Good and Evil”,

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“The Birth of Tragedy” and “The Twilight
of the Idols”.

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According to Nietzsche, only by becoming a
free spirit, would you be able to enjoy this

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life to the fullest and become who you truly
are.

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So to help you become that true free spirit,
here are 8 lessons that you can learn from

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the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche:

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Become a master over yourself
Nietzsche says: “You had to become master

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over yourself, master of your own good qualities.”

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To become a free spirit requires a special
kind of willingness, a singular capacity for

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self-liberation, in other words, a lot of
willpower.

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Nietzsche dedicated a great deal of efforts
in the attempt to define the free spirit.

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His book “Human, All Too Human: A Book for
Free Spirits'' is in fact dedicated to the

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romantic ideal of the free spirit.

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According to Nietzsche, one of the most important
obligations to fulfil for the free spirit

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is to be a master of oneself.

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As self-mastery primarily means self-knowledge,
it is important to learn about ourselves,

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about our likes and dislikes, about our limits
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Only when we know these essential things about
ourselves, can we start to plan a future which

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can satisfy us.

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We can learn to control our actions - learn
to say yes only to the things which are beneficial

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for us in the long run, and are compatible
with our higher aims.

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Similarly, we should say no to anything that
can block our development towards those aims.

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Failure to achieve self-mastery can lead us
to stagnation or decay; pursuing meaningless

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temporary pleasures will make us wander aimlessly
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For example, if you are not working on becoming
a master of yourself, you can be tempted to

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accept a high paid job instead of an appropriate
job which can lead to a dream career that

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can unleash your best talents and skills.

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Or, tempted by temporary pleasures, you can
cheat on your spouse, destroying your marriage

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and losing contact with your children if you
have any.

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If you are not a master of yourself, you might
become dependent on junk food, which could

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make you diabetic, potentially ruining your
goal for a long and healthy life.

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In order to be a free spirit, it is essential
to be a master over yourself, and in doing

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so, have the mental toolkit to make better
decisions in your life.

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Think differently
According to Nietzsche: “We call ‘free

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spirit’ one who thinks in a different way
from what he is expected to do regarding his

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origin, his milieu, his condition and his
position, or regarding the prevailing opinions

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of his time.”

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The free spirit has the strength to abandon
his habits, his social and moral inherited

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values.

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In Nietzsche’s view, it is crucial to learn
to think on our own, to filter the societal

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morals and values through our own personal
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This might require a specific strength of
character.

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It takes power to be able to resist the peer
pressure to do things in a certain way, it

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takes courage to refuse traditional opinions
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A free spirit is more susceptible to self-development,
for inventing new things, new systems or new

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ways of living.

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In the past, it was considered a fact that
people cannot fly.

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If everybody was a realist, nobody would have
invented the first airplanes.

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Hence it is better to be open minded, to dream
about what can be possible, to free your mind,

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and open it to new horizons.

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To learn to be more open minded and to have
the courage to think differently, a good rule

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would be to ask “why” to everything you
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For example, consider you are the owner of
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If you follow the traditional way of doing
business, you would ask your employees to

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come and work in the office for 8 hours per
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But you might ask yourself “why?

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Is that really beneficial for my business?”.

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Pondering on these questions might lead you
to create new agreements with your employees,

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allowing them to work both in their office
and remotely, not necessarily 8 hours per

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day, but depending on their workload.

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By questioning everything you do, you can
open your mind to new possibilities, creating

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more freedom of action in your life and even
in the lives of others.

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This way you can be free from the conventional
ways of working or of living.

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Learn to live with contradictions
Nietzsche teaches us: “As a free spirit

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you had to find out the inevitable error in
every Yes and in every No, error as inseparable

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from life, life itself as conditioned by the
perspective and its inaccuracy...”

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According to Nietzsche, truth is relative,
an absolute truth doesn’t really exist.

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He went so as far to say that the will to
systematize reality is a sign of dishonesty.

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To be a free spirit is to have the capacity
to see beyond what is considered right or

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wrong, beyond what is generally accepted as
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Nietzsche was one of the philosophers who
was the closest to being free spirits because

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he didn’t follow a system, he even contradicted
himself in his writing, probably convinced

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that the true readers can read beyond the
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Therefore, in order to learn to be a free
spirit, we need to allow ourselves to accept

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the contradictions around us, accept that
something can be “black” and “white”

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at the same time, the fact that our nature
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For example, some might support the death
penalty, but advocate against abortion.

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Others might be an evolutionist and a religious
person at the same time.

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Others might advocate for freedom of speech
but can be against hateful speech.

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Following a moral system bluntly might force
you to adopt one extreme against another,

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depriving you from a part of your convictions.

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One of the best ways to practice being a free
spirit is to avoid having strong convictions,

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to learn to live with your contradictions
and try to judge every situation according

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to its context, rather than following a rigid
system of values.

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For example, it might be extremely important
to advocate about freedom of speech in an

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authoritarian society.

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But, at the same time, in a developed democracy,
it might be appropriate to fight against hateful

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speech which threatens to transform that democracy
back into fascism.

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Be an experimenter
To quote Nietzsche: “The free spirit is

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a monster of courage and curiosity…a born
adventurer and discoverer.”

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Nietzsche defined the free spirits as being
"experimenters", they are free spirits who

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will fight against dogmatism and embrace the
hardships of independence of mind and spirit.

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These are individuals strong enough to seek
the truth, Nietzsche advocated a method of

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attaining knowledge called “experimentalism”.

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While the vast majority of people are “bound
spirits”, prisoners of beliefs that have

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been inculcated into them by their parents,
governments, and religions, the free spirit

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is one who has liberated himself from these
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The free spirits are true explorers, they
can act in life without needing to be absolutely

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sure about a thing before taking action on
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One example of a free spirit offered by Nietzsche
is Christopher Columbus, the great symbol

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of the quest for the unknown.

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Christopher Columbus had the courage to explore
the oceans with the goal to reach India even

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if he was not absolutely certain how long
the trip would take.

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The experiment characterizes the way of living
like a free spirit, being open to adventure

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and new discoveries.

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To be an experimenter or a free spirit, we
should try to be more adventurous.

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For example, if you have lived in the same
country since the day you were born, you might

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prepare your own experiment: to leave your
country for a period of one year, you might

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take a sabbatical year in which you can work
as a volunteer in a third world country, or

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you can travel the world.

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Whatever you have done in your life for a
very long period of time, you should question

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it, create your own experiments to test if
your way of living is the right one for you;

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go back to it in the case that it is the right
one or leave it forever in the case it isn’t.

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You can never truly know what is good for
you unless you test the opposite of what you

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are currently doing in life.

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A free spirit is never afraid to take their
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Fight against tyranny
In the words of Nietzsche: “Wherever there

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has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher
has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum

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to a man into which no tyranny can force its
way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the

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heart: and that annoys the tyrants.”

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In seeking truths, the free spirit – the
“genuine and solitary philosopher” – becomes

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an enemy of all those who attempt to promote
ignorance for the sake of gaining power over

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others.

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A free spirit would never accept others to
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He would protect his own thoughts carefully
no matter what happens outside himself.

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For example, in Nietzsche’s time, at the
end of the nineteenth century, it was unfashionable

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to be an atheist.

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However, he was a force of resistance against
the dogmatism of Christianity.

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Many times in his writing, what he calls free
spirits were those like him, who were willing

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to talk about atheistic and revolutionary
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Another example of a philosopher fighting
against tyranny was Socrates.

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The free spirit becomes an enemy of all those
who attempt to promote ignorance for the sake

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of gaining power over others, and, in doing
so, he might even risk his life, just as Socrates

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did.

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Nowadays we can, for the most part, change
things without risking our lives and we can

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learn from the examples of past free spirits
who acted as heroes of humanity.

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For example, if we care deeply about protecting
the rights of animals, we can join big campaigns,

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promote our view on social media, organize
events, and protest in front of governmental

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buildings.

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Sooner or later, somebody powerful may listen
and a change could be made.

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It is important to think that it is within
our power to change the things we don’t

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agree with.

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We need to fight against the tyranny of unfair
legislation and duplicitous governments.

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Be authentic
Nietzsche asks: “What does your conscience

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say?

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— ‘You should become the person you are’.”

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Once we understand that we are limitless,
that we should not have prejudices about ourselves,

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it is important to know that we also need
to be authentic, meaning we need to be honest

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regarding our emotions, our likes and dislikes,
our real opinions about certain things.

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Thus, the free spirit focuses on the reality
of their own tendencies and emotions.

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The changes in your mood and emotions are
extremely important.

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They might be annoying sometimes, but they
are an expression of your freedom.

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The more you listen to them, the more free
you allow yourself to be.

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Nietzsche believed this is the way to stop
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It is important to have goals in life, but
there is no meaning to reach these goals if

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your happiness is not assured along the way.

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According to him, our real ideals or our goals
are an end product of our animal dimension,

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therefore we cannot ignore our tendencies
and emotions when we pursue a goal, in other

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words, we should always connect our thinking
with our feelings, only in this way will that

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special self-confidence in life emerge.

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In real life, we can try this teaching by
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making decisions, by being more honest with
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To be free requires you to be authentic, to
be a complete person, one that thinks with

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his head but feels with his heart at the same
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For example, if you have just graduated from
a college of engineering and suddenly you

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realized that what you love is art, you have
to be authentic and inform your parents about

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your plans.

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Of course, you might instead make a “rational
decision” to find a job in engineering because

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you have invested so much time in learning
the subject, but to be a free spirit you need

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to have the courage to make “unreasonable
decisions” if your gut feeling tells you

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that art is the best career for you.

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Be joyful
Nietzsche writes: “And we should consider

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every day lost on which we have not danced
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And we should call every truth false which
was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

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Nietzsche often used the word “dance”
to indicate a free way of being.

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In other words, every day in which we are
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To be free means to know how to laugh, to
dance, to enjoy life.

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For Nietzsche, laughter represents a special
form of knowledge, giving us a fresh perspective

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over life, to understand to not take things
too “seriously” because everything is

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temporary and in continuous evolution.

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A bad mood is nothing more than a state of
“irremediable seriousness”, in which we

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give too much importance to things which come
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For example, there is no meaning in getting
depressed that you lost your job because there

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are so many jobs in the world and most probably
you wouldn’t have stayed in that job for

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more than a few years anyway.

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There is no meaning in getting upset that
your partner left you because there are billions

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of people out there that you may be more compatible
with, and even if they hadn’t left you,

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the relationship would probably break down
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There is no meaning in grieving for a long
time when someone close to you dies.

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It is a fact that we all will die someday,
nobody lives forever.

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We need to keep a sense of serenity in life
by being aware that nothing lasts forever.

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Knowing that even life has an expiration date
would make us enjoy it much more.

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Do not get attached to people and things
In our final quote from Nietzsche for this

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video, he says: “He who has attained the
freedom of reason cannot attach his heart

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too firmly to anything individual; he must
have in himself something wandering that takes

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pleasure in change and transitoriness.”

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To be free does not mean only freedom to go
wherever you want, freedom to speak your mind,

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freedom to get any job you want, freedom from
tyranny.

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Freedom also means psychological freedom,
to not be dependent on someone, such as your

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spouse, your parents or others, as well as
to not be dependent on material things, like

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money.

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To be free, you should have a deep awareness
that everything in life is temporary, including

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your relationships with other people.

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A great test for a free spirit, according
to Nietzsche, is if you are able to withstand

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a lack of human companionship, Although Nietzsche
was not always able to withstand a life without

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the material support of his mother and sister,
he was able to live alone in the Alpine mountains,

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wandering from place to place, living cheaply
and freely.

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For Nietzsche, the attachment itself is not
really the problem, but to remain stuck in

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a particular one is.

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We are social animals and it is virtually
impossible to live entirely by oneself, nowadays.

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We create bonds with our relatives, our colleagues
at work, our lovers, our friends.

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To become free spirits, we should try to keep
away from toxic people who have the tendency

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to chain us to themselves, who try to put
limits on the way we express ourselves or

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our actions.

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If you find yourself in such a relationship,
it is better to leave it and find a new one

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which leaves you room to express yourself
fully and gives you the freedom to explore

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the world and to explore your true potential.

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True love cannot exist without true freedom,
the best relationship being the one in which

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you have all the freedom to be yourself and
that you are free to leave anytime, but you

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return to over and over again because of the
great love you find in its nest.

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