Will to Joy
Not advice, but technique. Not guidance, but tools. Not opinion, but evidence. Through the practical application of the extraordinary teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Joy Podcast is the high road to self-overcoming and transcendence.
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(Formerly the Becoming Übermensch podcast)
Episodes
23 episodes
23. Wrestling with the Spirit of Gravity
Recorded on the rugged trails of the Lake District, with a stupidly heavy pack, sore knees, and a wild Nietzschean esprit!In this episode, I yomp alone through across 40 miles of peaks and silence, sleeping out, drinking from st...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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43:29
22. Can your suffering be sanctified?
This week on the Will to Joy podcast – Can suffering be more than something to endure? Nietzsche thought so. In a world obsessed with comfort, safety, and minimising pain, he argued for the discipline of great suffering
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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37:52
21. On self-overcoming part II
We continue our discussion of Nietzschean self-overcoming and explore a range of techniques for changing behaviour that scientific evidence tells us work.You will descend into the world of Nietzsche’s drives psychology and discover that ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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56:09
20. On self-overcoming
Why Won’t You Do What You Want You to Do?You know what you want. You want to be fitter, healthier, stronger, more focused, more creative. You want to stop scrolling, quit drinking, wake up earlier, stop saying yes to peop...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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40:01
19. Body is destiny
"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reaches up into the topmost summit of his spirit." Beyond Good and Evil, 75In this episode, we begin with a plunge into the sacred animality of the body: sensation, de...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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40:09
18. Is the examined life worth living? Nietzsche and the curse of consciousness
Socrates claimed the unexamined life isn’t worth living—but Nietzsche wasn’t so sure. What if our acute self-awareness...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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28:27
17. The long war against the body
What if history’s greatest heresy wasn’t the rejection of God—but the rejection of the body?In today’s show, we follow Nietzsche’s assault on the Christian hatred of the flesh. From medieval monks who saw filth as virtue, to saint...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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42:03
16. Nietzsche’s proof you have no soul - and why that's a good thing
What if your precious soul was just superstition? What if your thoughts, feelings, and identity weren’t the whispers of a divine spirit, but the murmurs of your gut, your glands, your genes? In this episode of Will t...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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40:29
15. EXTRA: Announcement of podcast name change
Join me for an important announcement about the future of the show. Your thoughts on this news most welcome using the "message the show" hotlink.
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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6:33
14. Against the Despisers of the Body - Nietzsche's dismantling of "The Soul"
You have been taught to despise your body—to believe that your true worth lies in some hidden soul, while your flesh is merely a burden or a prison. But what if that is one of the greatest misunderstandings of the human condition ev...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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40:57
13. EXTRA: Technique for establishing positive habits
In this bonus episode, I share with you a proven, evidence-based technique for embedding positive behaviours in your life: the establishing of habits.In this bonus mini-episode of Becoming Übermensch, we explore the art of forming posi...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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13:24
12. My attempted 100 mile hike
Something different this week. Join me as I re-attempt a 100 mile hike along the South Down's Way in Southern England in just three days, wild camping along the way. Naturally, there will be talk of Nietzsche and a little about your devoted hos...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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35:21
11. Nietzsche's Will to Power and a new Hierarchy of Needs
In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we plunge deeper into Nietzsche’s concept of will to power as the underlying principle of life, reinterpreting Maslow’s hierarchy of needs through this radical lens. We explore how ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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50:56
10. Nietzsche's Will to Power in nature
What is power? Is it dominance over others, or something deeper—an intrinsic force woven into the very fabric of life itself? Nietzsche famously declared that “life as such is will to power.” But what does that really mean?In this...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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45:43
9. Nietzsche's Will to Power unpacked
“What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power itself. What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome.”Nietzsche’s Will to Power is perhaps his most compelling yet widely misund...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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43:07
8. Wanting and getting
Why do we always yearn for more? Why does happiness seem forever out of reach? In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we dive into the inescapable cycle of desire, fulfilment, and renewed longing—tracing its roots from the bleak...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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47:46
7. The anatomy of desire
What do we really want when we say we want happiness? In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we continue our deep dive into Nietzsche’s conception of happiness—not as a passive state of pleasure, but as something dynamic, something ea...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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43:08
6. Nietzsche the storm cloud
There are few western philosophers that have had such an impact on our contemporary culture as Friedrich Nietzsche. Why, then, is his thought so often dismissed? Why does his philosophy, which continues to provoke and inspire, still invite and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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37:23
5. What everyone really wants
Life itself forces us to posit values—this is Nietzsche’s insight, and it’s inescapable. Every desire, every choice, every “yes” and “no” reveals what we truly value. But have you ever questioned the structure of your desires? Have you peeled b...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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32:25
4. Your wake up call
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.” In this episode of Becoming Übermensch, we share two practical exercises that build strength, self-control, and embodied awareness, including a simple but potent practice from Nietzsche’s...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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43:09
3. Nietzsche's glad tidings
What is happiness, and how is it achieved? In this episode, we begin our exploration of Nietzsche’s provocative ideas of happiness, desire, and self-overcoming. Is happiness simply getting what we want? Or is it something dee...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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29:25
