
Friedrich Nietzsche: accumulation, affirmation and generosity (Salvador Dalí) – Alexander Nehamas: Life as literature – Sigmund Freud – Lanier Anderson (redemption) – Joshua Landy (self-fashioning and self-deception) – “The most personal, the most creative” (Scorsese) – Aristotle: impossible but plausible is better than implausible but possible – Nietzsche: from artists and poets we have to learn to embellish reality (GS 299) – In life – Appreciate art, and understand life as a work of art – Sell – Spin news – Negotiate, empathize, and influence – Motivation – Mindfulness – Adaptatability – Autarchy.