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Card #c888IR // #c888Synthesis

“What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.” The moment your comfort disgusts you is not a breakdown — it is the signal that you are ready to move.

— In our words · Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)

[Use when]

When success starts to feel like a cage — do not redecorate the cage, read the contempt.

[Why it matters]

Disgust with your own complacency is the most honest data you will ever get. Most people medicate it; the operator reads it as a compass reading — it points exactly at what must be surpassed next.

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