The Golden One - November 09, 2025


What Does Not K＊ll You Makes You Stronger – Or Bitter and Jaded

Topics
metapolitical struggle
Hosted by
Marcus Follin
Mentioned
Perthro Ullr
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12 minutes

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2,173

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159

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14

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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? In this episode I talk about how you should approach life in a high thumos way, in order to maximize your chances of success, and minimize your risk of failure.

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00:00:00.400 What doesn't kill you makes you stronger or weaker, bitter and jaded, which is true.
00:00:07.420 I'll talk a bit about it in this fine video, but first a message from the sponsor of this video,
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00:00:44.340 Now on to the teaching at hand.
00:00:47.780 Perhaps you've heard it, and of course it's a good mentality, it's a good attitude to have.
00:00:53.860 You know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but I always need to be truthful.
00:00:58.540 I always need to be open and honest with you, and I'm here to tell you that making mistakes is always bad.
00:01:05.640 Losing is always bad.
00:01:07.220 So the best approach is to learn from the mistakes of others.
00:01:11.100 If someone says to you that it's good to make mistakes, it's not good to make mistakes.
00:01:15.520 It's bad to make mistakes.
00:01:17.120 Try to avoid mistakes.
00:01:18.840 Now it's hard, especially if you approach life in a high thumos.
00:01:22.960 Now I know it's supposed to be thumos in Greek.
00:01:26.920 Any Greek speaker can correct me if I am wrong or right here.
00:01:30.100 Thumos.
00:01:30.680 But I'm saying thumos because I've done so for so many years. 0.95
00:01:34.340 Now anyway, to my point is that you should approach life in a life-affirming way, in a high thumos way.
00:01:40.820 You should take risks, and therefore you will probably make mistakes.
00:01:45.420 You will probably encounter losses, but what I want to say in this video is that do try to minimize the risks.
00:01:54.080 Do try to optimize your chances.
00:01:56.760 I've talked about the rune Perthro before.
00:01:59.680 I write about it in Demigod Mentality as well, that the better you prepare for something, the higher your chances of a successful outcome. 0.74
00:02:09.040 If you play in a sort of strategy game, I'm an enjoyer of Warhammer for example, you know that yes, there is an element of chance with the dice.
00:02:18.120 But the better you position your models, the better you position your pieces on the gaming board, the higher the chances of luck finding you, the higher the chances are of a successful outcome.
00:02:29.840 So this is how you should approach life as well, that yes, there will be a risk.
00:02:34.260 There will be a risk in anything.
00:02:35.600 We can talk about business, for example, you will have to take risks, like it or not.
00:02:41.400 But you can try to position everything in such a way that you limit the risk, that you optimize the chances of success by studying the mistakes of others, by preparing as much as possible.
00:02:54.980 So that when you take that leap of faith, which you will have to take often, and this can be true for anything in life really.
00:03:01.600 It can be a sensitive young man who approaches a young fair maiden.
00:03:07.800 There is an element of risk.
00:03:09.260 Maybe she will reject you.
00:03:11.040 So you need to prepare as much as possible.
00:03:12.960 You need to have, you know, be well-groomed, be well-dressed, be polite, well-spoken.
00:03:18.020 You need to be charming and everything like that.
00:03:21.400 You need to prepare to the best of your abilities.
00:03:23.480 There is still the risk that she will reject your conversation or whatever it might be.
00:03:29.800 Or if we're talking about business, it might be there is a risk that you will lose, that you will make mistakes.
00:03:36.560 But do try to, you know, prepare as much as possible.
00:03:39.980 Do your homework before so that you can say to yourself, should you, gods forbid, should you lose, should you make a mistake, should you fail in your endeavor?
00:03:47.600 You can at least say to yourself that I couldn't have known.
00:03:51.500 I did the preparation to the best of my abilities, despite that it was not meant to be.
00:03:57.620 The last thing you want to do is to take a big risk, lose, and then the thought will haunt you that you should have known better.
00:04:06.440 So this is what I mean, that you will have to take risks, especially to my young audience here.
00:04:12.200 You will have to take risks to get ahead in life, no matter what you do.
00:04:15.940 But for your own sake, do try to learn from the mistakes, do try to learn from the mistakes of others.
00:04:24.720 Talk to older guys, guys who have been in the same, you know, who have walked a similar path as you ask them.
00:04:32.000 Is this a good course of action?
00:04:33.600 And they might say, it's not a good course of action.
00:04:36.040 Or they might say, yes, it is a good course of action, but think about these other things.
00:04:40.920 So when I went to university, for example, in one of the introductory speeches one teacher held, he said that you should, of course, try to pursue good grades and everything like that.
00:04:52.700 But you also need to engage in other things while you are here at the university.
00:04:58.340 You cannot only study.
00:05:00.520 You also need to be engaged in, you know, other activities.
00:05:05.160 Because ultimately the path to success, it's also about who you know.
00:05:09.980 So this good advice he gave, and I listened to it as well, because the older generation, perhaps some older boomers will say that, you know, go to school, get good grades, and then you will get a good work.
00:05:21.860 That's, you know, the advice might come from a good place, but we all know that's not quite how it works.
00:05:27.220 So I was quite grateful for this lecture this particular teacher held, and he said that you need to engage yourself in other things as well.
00:05:34.360 So that was some insight, and by the way, when you're listening to insights from older guys, you don't need to necessarily admire the guys.
00:05:42.540 It can just be the case that they've lived for 15 years more than you, so they have accumulated mistakes.
00:05:50.100 They can share the lessons they paid a heavy price for, and you can, you know, take on board the lesson without actually paying for it.
00:05:58.220 Because that's also something you can think about mistakes.
00:06:01.940 It's a very expensive lesson.
00:06:03.840 You don't want to pay for the mistake.
00:06:05.780 Sometimes you simply have to, you know, say to yourself, yeah, I made a mistake.
00:06:10.340 I will pay for it.
00:06:11.780 This is a very, very expensive mistake.
00:06:15.120 This is a good attitude, but the best attitude is to do your homework before, so you don't make these mistakes.
00:06:21.980 So you're not injured.
00:06:24.280 And we can take such a thing as a physical injury as well.
00:06:27.080 Sometimes you will be injured.
00:06:29.300 There's no real silver lining to it.
00:06:31.860 If you get injured, it's bad.
00:06:33.840 What you can do when you get injured is to try to pursue other venues of progression.
00:06:39.600 So I have a friend recently got injured, and I said to him, you know what, you can try to get better at meditating or doing breath work or something like that.
00:06:48.260 You can't do any heavy deadlifts over the next couple of weeks or even months, so you need to find something else to progress in.
00:06:55.120 So that is the high thumos approach to life, that whatever happens, you will try to find something that you can get better at, that you can progress in. 0.90
00:07:04.220 But when you do get injured, you might end up bitter and jaded.
00:07:10.760 And this is, you know, the brutal truth.
00:07:13.540 It's not so fun for me to talk about.
00:07:15.580 It's not so, you know, positive.
00:07:18.140 But we also need to be honest here to say that if you injure yourself, it is bad and it will probably haunt you for quite some time to come.
00:07:25.620 I struggled with an elbow injury for much of last year.
00:07:28.720 Now it's better, but still in my mind, there is a before and after date of the injury.
00:07:33.440 Now I know that, yes, I cannot do, you know, chins on any of the trees here because I might injure myself again. 0.71
00:07:39.740 So there is that worry.
00:07:41.160 There is that fear.
00:07:41.920 Now, very important to keep in mind that you shouldn't be paralyzed by fear.
00:07:47.780 You shouldn't, you know, have this paralysis by analysis.
00:07:51.800 You need to take risks, but do it in a calculated way.
00:07:55.940 This is the difference between being brave and being reckless.
00:07:59.020 Being brave is that you overcome yourself, you overcome your fears, but you do it in a strategic and intelligent way.
00:08:05.940 Being reckless is to just take a leap of faith without actually planning before actually preparing.
00:08:12.640 So know the difference.
00:08:13.860 And especially if we're talking about such a thing as the metapolitical struggle, the political struggle to save European civilization.
00:08:21.280 We cannot afford to be reckless.
00:08:23.120 We need to be brave because it takes courage.
00:08:25.680 I would know.
00:08:26.860 I've been at it for 10 years.
00:08:28.240 It does take courage and you need to overcome fear.
00:08:31.720 So you need to do it in an intelligent way because if you do it in a reckless way,
00:08:35.460 you're leaving yourself open to being hit by being struck down by the enemy, metaphorically speaking, of course.
00:08:41.700 So also, I've said this for so many years now that, you know, central to my teaching is that you should overcome fears.
00:08:48.960 You should overcome yourself.
00:08:50.160 You should continuously try to get better.
00:08:52.520 And that, you know, includes an element of venturing out outside the comfort zone, outside what is known to you.
00:09:00.540 You need to overcome many of these things to go forward.
00:09:03.380 So the only thing you can do is to prepare yourself accordingly.
00:09:08.280 So when you take that step, the next step on the path to the overman, I made a video where I Nietzsche posted a bit about a year or two ago.
00:09:17.720 I said that the path to the overman is to continuously get better.
00:09:22.040 Now, for every step you take, it's a step into the unknown.
00:09:25.140 It can be, but make sure at least that you are well informed for every step you take so you don't, you know, stumble and fall and you fall down into the abyss.
00:09:35.140 So, yeah, that's something to keep in mind at all times.
00:09:38.680 So to conclude this hopefully insightful video is that you will have to take risks.
00:09:44.020 You will probably make mistakes, but do endeavor to learn from the mistakes of others.
00:09:48.780 Do endeavor to limit the amount of mistakes because they can accumulate and they can leave scars on you, mental scars.
00:09:55.460 And they will, you know, eventually they can make you bitter and jaded.
00:09:58.980 I've been a bit bitter and jaded myself over this last year because I've taken many heavy blows and I'm saying that it's not good because it has halted my momentum a bit.
00:10:09.740 Now I have tried to work up the Fumos and momentum again.
00:10:12.840 I'm writing on my book now.
00:10:14.280 It feels good enough, but it's not nice.
00:10:17.100 It's not good.
00:10:18.360 So keep that in mind also that you will have to take risks, but calculate the risks, view life, view business, view whatever you're doing as a strategy game.
00:10:28.980 Position your models, position your pieces in such a way that whatever, when you roll the dice, that whatever the dice might show, might be a one, might be a six.
00:10:39.760 You have a response to it and you are prepared to, you know, act accordingly.
00:10:44.460 Same thing if we're talking about fighting.
00:10:46.220 If you drop your guard, you will be knocked out.
00:10:48.360 You can't just come in to, you know, throw a haymaker.
00:10:51.220 It might land, it might not.
00:10:53.500 You might drop your guard, you might get knocked out.
00:10:55.820 So it's good to keep your guard up at all times, calculate everything you do.
00:11:00.300 So again, you will have to take risks.
00:11:02.400 And the last thing you want to do is to find yourself on the other side of having made a mistake.
00:11:08.180 And then you look back and say to yourself, I should have known better.
00:11:11.100 I should have thought about this and that.
00:11:13.420 Now, if you make a mistake, despite preparing accordingly, it's just what happens.
00:11:18.440 Sometimes it happens.
00:11:19.440 It happens to the best of us.
00:11:20.560 Then it's just a matter of, you know, approaching it in a stoic fashion and say to yourself that it is what it is.
00:11:26.360 So if you've prepared accordingly, you make a mistake.
00:11:28.940 It is what it is.
00:11:30.240 So anyway, I hope that was somewhat insightful.
00:11:33.600 Thank you for your support and thank you for watching XXO.
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