높은 투모스 수양하기: 영웅주의와 해방을 향한 길

### 높은 투모스 함양하기: 혁신과 발전의 열쇠
* 🏛 "고대 그리스에서 '투모스'는 영웅, 전사, 철학자들의 원동력이었던 **정신력, 마음의 에너지, 열정, 의지**"를 뜻합니다.
* ♂ 투모스가 높은 사람이 되려면 **밝은 면(용기, 영웅심, 자기 극복)**과 **어두운 면(분노, 좌절, 영광과 복수에 대한 열정)**을 모두 자신의 가장 강한 버전이 되기 위해 쏟아 부어야 합니다.
* 💪 무술, 격렬한 역도, 달리기 등의 활동을 통한 신체 훈련은 정신을 단련할 뿐만 아니라 **혈액의 건강과 정력을 키우기 때문에 높은 투모스를 키우는 데 매우 중요**합니다.
* 😡 어두운 투모스를 받아들인다는 것은 **큰 슬픔, 분노, 슬픔, 공포의 감정을 의식적으로 활용**하여 변화하고 도전을 극복하는 것을 포함합니다.
* ♂ 가벼운 투모스는 용기, 영웅심, 열망, 야망과 관련이 있으며, 이를 키우는 한 가지 방법은 **'인생의 LARP'를 통해 본받을 만한 캐릭터나 이상**을 선택하고 영감을 주는 이야기에 몰입하는 것입니다.
* 🌟 "투모스는 **변화를 위한 신조**이고, **진보를 위한 신조**이며, **영웅의 신조**입니다."
* 📈 "행복은 자기 극복, 어떤 식으로든 발전하는 데서 오는 것이며 **기쁨은 현재 진행형**입니다."
* 🤝 남성 그룹이나 커뮤니티에 가입하면 **높은 투모스를 가지고 살아가기 위한 노력에 대한 지원과 책임감**을 얻을 수 있습니다.

승리와 변화를 이루기 위해서는 투모스를 받아들여 그 빛과 어둠의 측면을 모두 수용하여 가장 강한 버전으로 거듭나야 합니다.

you want to be glowing. You want to be thriving like a Greek hero. But what do you do when the dark thoughts assail you, when the temptations are swirling, or maybe you're feeling down, you're feeling depressed, you're feeling empty. What do you need? You need thumos. Thumos means spiritedness in ancient Greece. Thumos was associated with the energy of the heart, with the passions, and with the will. It was the virtue and the chief driving force behind heroes, warriors, and philosophers alike. And this idea is changing my life, and I hope to share some insights with you about becoming a man of high thumos. Now, thumos has a light and a dark side. The light side of thumos is courage, is loving heroism, is self-overcoming. But the dark side of thumos is the passions of rage, of frustration, of the will to glory and vengeance. And one thing I've been realizing along my path is that it is important to channel all aspects of the

heart energy of thumos towards becoming your strongest version. If you really want to achieve Victory, most men in the west today are repressed. We've lived in confined houses. We've grown up on excessive safety and comfort, and in an anti-heroic culture. Hence, a lot of the wild passions and strong masculinity have gone underground in our psyche. Yeah, this makes us more docile and peaceful in society, but it also takes away the spiritual element and virility that is there to help man towards His Highest aim, His Highest Destiny, and Liberation. To make a bold claim, no transformation or true development can occur without thumos. In this video, we're talking about Plato's Republic and a three-fold nature of Soul, how to harness your thumos, and we're going to get into physical thumos, the Dark Side of thumos, and channeling it, which is probably the most important, and then the light side of thumos, AKA LARPing in life. Welcome back to Wisdom Warriors. I'm Christian.

let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Part one: Plato. In Plato's Republic, Plato describes the tripartite soul, this three-fold nature of soul. And in that, there is the logos, which is the reason and the mind. There's the thumos, which is the heart and the spiritedness or the passions. And then there's the Aeros, which is associated with the belly and with the appetites, desires, and material needs. And the thumos is kind of the mediator between the two. It's kind of like a wild stallion, right? And this wild stallion, for most people, is broken. It doesn't go anywhere very quickly or with much spirit anymore. And for other people, it's just going crazy this way and that, and they're ruled by that stallion. Plato's idea of justice is when that which is inferior serves that which is superior, when the appetites and the material needs and comfort serve the heart, serve the thumos, and the thumos serves the reason and the virtue.

man is aligned correctly, he will live a good life, and life will be good and beautiful. But most people are misaligned in their internal hierarchy, and to Plato, that would is injust is when that which is inferior rules when the appetites Rule. And all of a sudden, the spiritedness, the passions serve the Quest for satiation of the appetites, instead of the pursuit of virtue and the good life. And this is what creates decadence. Plato believed that thumos was the key because thumos could be made to fight for what is perceived to be just. If you set something as an ideal or an ideal of Justice virtue in your mind, the key to reaching that is through spiritedness, is through directing your courage, your heroic quest for Glory towards that ideal, and also through channeling the darker passions of Rage, of frustration, even grief, and horror towards transformation, towards transforming towards that ideal. The Greek saw this force in the soul as essential for making moral decisions. Cuz here's the thing thing. The moral choice is the hard Choice. Medicine tastes

bitter. It's like, you know, you're scrolling on your phone at night, and you know you should read the book. How do you actually reach for the book and start reading? Spiritedness, you know, if an addiction and a temptation is assailing you, like the urge to smoke your Vape, how do you break that cycle? How do you break that pattern? Thumos. Most people, and most of us here even, have been neutered from our thumos. We have been cut off from that source of Liberation, and because of this, we kind of swirl in self-pity, in Melancholy, in self-sabotage, and we just can't seem to quit. So if you really want to make lasting change in your life, it's not about getting more ideas, it's about becoming a man of high thumos. How do you do that? Part two: physical thumos. Before we get into the psychological aspects of channeling the light and dark of thumos, we need to talk about physiology. The thing is, thumos in Greece was

associated with the breath and with the blood, AKA The Life Force. Physical training is non-negotiable for cultivating High thumos. You see things like martial arts, intense weightlifting, running - all of these things. Not only do you get the practice being spirited in your mind and attitude, you also build up the healthiness and virility in your blood. And no matter how spirited you are in your mind, if your blood is exhausted and empty, it's going to be really hard to overcome yourself. There's an old quote from Nietzsche that says when he's very tired, all of his old demons come back. High thumos training is also just so fun. It's one of the few times I feel Fully Alive in life - like doing a martial arts Kata with the Setting Sun, dancing as hard as I can, doing a combat sport, doing heavy deadlifts, running - these kinds of things really ignite that spirit inside of me, ignite the Daemon the ancient Greeks would call it, and help you have more spiritedness in life. The thing is

is if you start training hard and training well, this spiritedness transfers into how you work, how you play, how you love, you know, other aspects of life, and ultimately, that is the warrior ethos. The warrior path is to do things in excellence and to bring the fullness of your spirit into any given task. Part three: embracing the dark thumos. So, the dark thumos refers to the great grief, rage, sorrow, horror that we all feel when we're faced with insurmountable atrocities or adversities. And also, we can feel this dark thumos in regards to smaller things like relapsing on sugar or losing our dog or the girl not texting us back. And most people react one of two ways to these darker emotions: either they feel them and if they're more neurotic, they feel dark emotions very strongly and they kind of let these angers and passions run wild through their lives. Or if you're more like me, you feel them but then they automatically and almost unconsciously

slide beneath the surface. Yeah, we get frustrated, we get angry for a time, but it kind of gets buried underneath our conscious minds. And both of these solutions that people have are kind of immature. And I've been trying to grow and actually harness that darker energy in a more conscious way. For instance, I went to a men's Circle a few months back, and I didn't know what I was walking into, but it was a sacred combat Circle about rage, about anger. And we got there, and we were asked to feel into where are we angry in our lives and express that vocally and talk about that. And I was feeling into myself. I was like, damn, all I feel is melancholy. I feel fatigue. I feel, you know, a dullness of sadness. And these are feelings that I wrestle with often. And all the other men started sharing their angers and their frustrations. And I started feeling that power coming out of them, that expression. And the mic got passed to me. And all of the sudden, that sadness about fatigue.

that sadness about The Chronic insomnia got turned into rage, and I talked about how angry I was at insomnia, how angry I was at how I've hurt myself, and the weaknesses and Temptations in my past. How angry I was at the disconnection and loneliness of the world. I just let this out of me, and I realized that a lot of that melano and dull sorrow was actually just the tip of the iceberg for a lot of frustration and anger that I wasn't feeling. And by releasing it and then hitting that heavy bag over and over again, I realized that I haven't been channeling my anger. I just kind of let things cross my boundaries, and I accept life instead of having the will to fight, right? And yeah, there is virtues to this. It's more maybe enlightened, you know, not to get so upset and angry all the time, but there's also a curse in that because anger is sacred. It is there to help you fight and overcome that which ails you. It is there to help you.

hold your boundaries, say no to things, and you know EXP your power in life. I think back to times where I've had to kick big addictions, like cigarettes for instance, and it was usually through this feeling of absolute frustration, getting fed up with myself, mad about how I'm hurting myself, and mad that I haven't been able to quit before. And it was that feeling of like righteous anger, of thumos, of passion, that allowed me to kickstart and break the cycle. And that's the thing, is like thumos, when it serves virtue, when it serves the logos, it is what allows you to break out of cycles. But when it serves, you know, the lusts, when it serves the desires and appetites, it brings you deeper into addiction. So it's almost like thumos, in my mind, is this vertical escalator where you're either going down deeper into bondage, or you're going up towards liberation. Thumos is the key to liberation. And one thing I didn't talk about there in terms

of the dark thumos is often periods of great change, of heartbreak, of realization, of like a dark night of the Soul per se. These are periods of initiation. They're going to inspire great feelings of grief, of despair, of Anger, of loss, and I just encourage you not to run from those moments when they come. The Broken Heart, the despair, is literally what inspires the courage for the rise. The most transformative seasons of my life have always come from the darkest moments. So we've established that thumos is the will to fight Injustice, but it's also the will to Glory. It's the will to Liberation. And in that, I've identified two positive aspects of the light thumos, and that is courage and heroism, as well as aspiration and ambition, all within reason, obviously. Now, how do you cultivate these things in abundance in your life? More thumos, more spiritedness in life in general, a more metaphysical approach I've been taking is laring in life. I'm sure you all have.

a character in your mind that you like to emulate. Maybe it's Bruce Lee, maybe it's one of the Spartans of 300, maybe it's Batman. Like, I don't care, be a kid again, right? Have a hero. And the thing is, heroic stories are so important because they are what download this software into our brain, right? So, this is why The Iliad was like the software of the Greek, and because the Greeks had that software, it determined what the boys became. It's the same thing with Thor and the Nordic gods for the Germanic peoples. It's the same thing with the gods of the Japanese Samurai, you know, whatever we put at the center of our culture, whatever myth or story. We Tell ourselves, we start to reflect. So, put good software into your brain. I love reading, you know, inspiring books, watching good movies, and kind of like being immersed in some story almost at all times, right now for me. Laring at life like my quest this week in the men's Academy is to train like a demigod.

and I know it sounds funny, and that sounds like a weirdo, but I got this idea from watching an interview with the golden one. Shout out to the golden one, another high thumos man out there, and he really embraced the idea of laring at life not as a negative thing, but a positive thing because it gives a greater sense of meaning to your actions and to your struggles. So, laring is important because it creates a lived mythology. Mythology was not just like these dreamlike ideas, it was supposed to help people make sense of the struggles and, you know, adversities of their life and inspire them to the heights of liberation, to the heights of their destiny. And the problem is right now, the modern West, we're in a fight for meaning. We no longer have a myth, we no longer have a guiding compass or an ideal of where to go in life, and because of this, a lot of people have trouble getting out of bed in the morning. We have trouble kicking like little petty addictions and

you know we swirl in distractions and temptations because we have no guiding principle, no guiding purpose. So we're in a fight for meaning, and the more myth, the more story you can add to your life. I recommend doing this every week: choosing a story to immerse yourself in, choosing a symbol or an ideal that you want to embody, maybe in your training or your work. This really adds meaning to life, and also it helps you progress. And honestly, the reason that high thumos is such a mantra for me right now is I realize that happiness comes from self-overcoming, from progressing in some way, whether it's in my work, my meditation, my relationships, my play, my training. Like if I can have more spiritedness in making videos, more spiritedness in how I interact in my relationships, the better life becomes, and joy is in progress. So thumos, my friends, is the Creed for transformation, it is the Creed for progress, and it is the Creed of Heroes. Be a man of high thumos.

and if you want to set a laring goal for yourself, every week set a challenge to live with Mor thumos. I invite you to the men's Academy, my new men's group, where we do have a weekly call about the challenges, about the quest, and we help you get more accountable to yourself. That's something that interests you, there's a link in the description below. In conclusion, self-overcoming is freaking hard. It is so hard when the dark thoughts are upon you, when the temptations are upon you. What do you do? And I hope you remember to live with thumos, with spiritedness. Thanks for watching Wisdom Warriors. I'm Christian. Click here for more philosophical inspiration. I'll see you over there.

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투모스를 품다: 고대 그리스의 정신력 개념

고대 그리스어로 기개를 뜻하는 투모스는 용기와 같은 밝은 면과 분노와 복수의 어두운 면을 모두 지닌 영웅과 전사의 원동력이었습니다.

오늘날의 억압된 사회에서 진정한 발전과 변화를 위해서는 투모스를 활용하는 것이 필수적입니다.

플라톤의 공화국에서는 투모스를 이성과 욕망 사이의 중재자 역할을 하는 마음의 에너지로 묘사하며, 투모스가 미덕에 봉사할 때 정의가 실현된다고 말합니다.

높은 투모스 함양하기: 고결하고 충만한 삶을 위한 핵심 요소

플라톤은 좋은 삶의 핵심은 내면의 위계가 잘 정돈된 상태이며, 영혼이 도덕적 결정을 내리는 데 중요한 역할을 한다고 믿었습니다.

영혼의 정신적 부분인 투모스는 용기와 열정을 미덕 추구로 이끄는 데 필수적입니다.

투모스를 키우려면 밝은 감정과 어두운 감정을 조절하고 건강과 정력을 키우는 활동에 참여하는 등 정신적, 육체적 훈련이 모두 필요합니다.

전사 정신을 받아들이고 다크 투모스를 활용하기

열심히 잘 훈련하는 것은 모든 일에 충만한 정신을 불어넣는 전사 정신을 구현하는 것으로 간주됩니다.

어두운 투모스, 즉 슬픔과 분노의 경험을 수용하는 것은 어두운 감정이 무의식적으로 삶을 통제하도록 내버려두지 않고 의식적으로 활용하고 표현하는 방법으로 여겨집니다.

남성 서클에 참석하여 분노를 표출하는 과정을 통해 개인은 분노를 표출하는 힘을 깨닫고 분노의 감정을 포용하고 적절히 활용하는 것의 중요성을 더 깊이 이해하게 되었습니다.

개인 역량 강화를 위한 투모스 활용하기

투모스, 즉 의로운 분노와 열정은 특히 그것이 미덕에 도움이 될 때 악순환에서 벗어날 수 있는 강력한 도구가 될 수 있습니다.

그것은 해방의 열쇠 역할을 하며 용기와 영웅심을 불러일으킬 수 있습니다.

슬픔과 절망의 시기를 포용하면 삶의 변화와 더 많은 투모스의 배양으로 이어져 궁극적으로 더 큰 정신력과 형이상학적인 성장으로 이어질 수 있습니다.

문화를 형성하는 영웅 스토리의 힘

영웅 이야기는 일종의 뇌 소프트웨어 역할을 하며 개인과 문화의 발달에 영향을 미칩니다.

반신불수 수행의 예에서 볼 수 있듯이, 영감을 주는 이야기에 몰입하면 삶의 의미와 목적의식을 얻을 수 있습니다.

현대 서구 사회에서 통일된 신화나 나침반이 부재한 상황에서 많은 사람들이 의미와 방향을 찾기 위해 고군분투하고 있습니다.

주간 스토리나 상징에 몰입하면 삶에 의미를 더하고 개인의 발전에 도움이 될 수 있습니다.

'높은 투모스'의 개념은 행복은 삶의 다양한 측면에서 자기 극복과 발전에서 비롯된다는 점을 강조합니다.

더 많은 투모스와 함께 살기 위해 매주 도전 과제를 설정하면 변화와 발전으로 이어질 수 있습니다.