I've been thinking a lot lately how it is that I can offer up my own (limited) knowledge and experience to others in hopes that what I have can help someone else here. It's something that we all do. But in doing this, at the same time I offer up advice, I'm dealing with some of those same issues and am still struggling a lot myself with how to deal or get through.

So in all of that, I become hypocritical without intent. It bothers me to throw around the "you should do this, you should do that" when I am not even doing it for myself! It makes me wonder -

Beyond knowledge and experience, there are other parts of the equation when it comes to actually fulfilling the positive outcome. Something more complex, more fundamental, more individual.

Nietzsche wrote, "--do you want a name for this world? A solution for all its riddles? A light for you, too, you best-concealed, strongest, most intrepid, most midnightly men?--This world is the will to power--and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power--and nothing besides!"

Nietzsche's "will to power" as individualism means not "power" over others, but over ourselves. A deep understanding and then acknowledging of who we are fundamentally and then using that to will ourselves to power.

I guess my question is this: What do you use to will yourself to power, beyond knowledge and experience.

Best,
Rachel