Adding Style to One’s Life

Friedrich Nietzsche states that, giving “style” to one’s character is essential in becoming your own person. 

What Nietzsche means by this, is that, one’s strengths and weaknesses are part of their inherent qualities, and should be utilized to their full potentials. Conformity destroys one’s self, and doesn’t all you to be independent.

Now, it’s obvious that, to be art, as Nietzsche would say, you must utilize your experiences and culture.  Art is always influenced by something else, whether it is in the smallest detail or not.  Pieces of Plato can be seen in Aristotle’s work.  Nietzsche himself, though he came up with radical new ideas, was based in ancient philosophy in various respects.  

Nietzsche says that we must fit all of our aspects together, until we become an art form in and of ourselves.  What we become will become beautiful in some respect, if we are able to fully recognize and implement our best qualities.  We must dig deep, find who we are inside, forget all the things culture tells us to do, and live a life of our own. (while recognizing our influences)