The Hammer.

If you want to be flattered, this isn't for you.

Nietzsche is the most quoted and least read philosopher we've got. He turns up on mugs and motivational feeds, stripped of everything that made him dangerous. Read properly, he's the philosopher of suspicion: he goes after your values, your ambitions, and the convictions you've never examined.

This is eight weeks working his ideas slowly into your own thinking, in a small group, with two people who've spent years inside the texts. Not a book club. Not a takeaway. A reckoning.

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Four books, explored in sequence.

Zarathustra is the spine. The others sharpen it. We're not marching through them page by page. We take the ideas that bite and put them to work on the life you're leading.

• Thus Spoke ZarathustraThe spine
• Beyond Good and EvilThe method
• On the Genealogy of MoralsThe excavation
• Twilight of the IdolsThe hammer

Sessions are conversational and slide-supported, online, in a cohort of four. We think out loud together, with no breakout rooms and nothing to prepare.

Honestly, we won't promise you outcomes.

Anyone who does is selling something. But across the cohorts we've run, the same patterns keep surfacing.

• Inherited values get sorted. What's left, you chose.
• You start to spot ressentiment, in others and, less comfortably, in yourself.
• Your patience for comfortable illusions drops, including your own.
• A harder, cleaner sense of what you're for.

Leaders who can take the hit.

Senior leaders, founders, head coaches, people performing at a level where the thinking underneath decides everything above it. No philosophy background needed. A high tolerance for being insulted by a dead German, however, is essential.

The particulars.