What do you lack in modern day life? Physical challenge, combat, hand to hand things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I cannot speak for women, but for at least us men \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the modern day man is like a sick animal. Anemic, lacking sun exposure to the sun, none of chutzpah, balls, and reckless audacity, preaches notions of sexual equality and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights, yet watches pr0n in private, and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even lift heavy weights at the gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several reasons. First of all, ironically enough I think the Spartans were just happy. They lived a simple existence, full of martial training and combat, and they lived a simple ascetic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, anti-pampering. A soft lifestyle is bad, a hard lifestyle is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, let me talk to us tech nerds. What do we live for? We live for travel, exotic experiences, exotic foods, the newest Apple product which will revolutionize our lives, the new Tesla, buying a home, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet, all of these life goals are superficial. They are soft. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really require any sort of true innovation, they just require hard work and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An interesting thought is one thing that we could control is what we desire. That this is actually something which is dictated by you. You can desire to want the Lambo, want to buy a home or own a home, have a certain amount of money, etc. But are these goals actually good? I think not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I think the ideal approach to things is a mishmash of stoicism<\/a>, spartan, and zen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That mentally, we have a stoic mindset to things. Which in short means we have a lofty insouciance<\/a> to things, we are mostly unperturbed by things. That we take all of the good and bad in life in equal stride, and we realize that there is more in life we can control than not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The spartan one is to become the overman<\/a>. That means do not see yourself as a mere human being, but as something beyond. Certainly DNA wise you are just an ordinary human, however, your own ideals for yourself are so insanely lofty and beyond. That you set yourself insanely high standards, because you see yourself as different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n