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# Blood & Ink: The Privilege of Difficulty
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/74/
- Published: 2025-01-04T22:29:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:14.000Z
- Description: nietzsche's banger / the most intelligent men...
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

“The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.”  
  
— Nietzsche

**This is the energy.**

Get to it,  
EB.