About the book
Friedrich Nietzsche called The Gay Science the most personal of his books, and no other work of his contains as many poems. Written in his aphoristic style, it is the first of his writings to proclaim that God is dead and to introduce the idea of eternal recurrence. The book is usually placed in his middle period, when he held up science, skepticism and intellectual discipline as paths toward a freer mind, and it sets out amor fati, a love of fate that embraces suffering too. A second edition added a fifth book and an appendix of songs. The title comes from a Provençal phrase for the art of poetry, and early English versions called it The Joyful Wisdom.
It appears on a reading list shared by Stephane Grand, managing partner of S.J. Grand Financial and Tax Advisory, who has run his own businesses for 15 years.
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Stephane Grand (Managing Partner/S.J. Grand Financial and Tax Advisory)
I have been running my own businesses for the last 15 years. Just before that, before diving head-on into entrepreneurship and independence, I used to be the country monitor of a large accounting and consulting network for China. Having had some ethical differences with members of my former network, I decided to break away from it. However, since I was equipped with a very expensive education, everybody around me was recommending that I would go and work for another firm. I was mired in doubt and was considering going back to management consulting. I have always had two go-to books when having moments of self-doubt like this. Those books are the Zarathustra and the Gay Science by Nietzsche. As I was reading through the prologue of the Zarathustra, and the title character was seeing the acrobat crossing between towers on the marketplace of Baghdad, I realized that staying in a cushy job would not help me cross between the beast and the superman, in a manner of speaking. Hence, Nietzsche helped me make a decision that I had already made in my heart, and which consisted in starting my own company.
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