Was Nietzsche an Agile Prophet?

During the past month, on my readings about philosophy, I came to Nietzsche´s book “Thus spoke Zarathustra”. A reading that has brought me important reflections about life, in the spheres of knowing, doing and particularly acting, as taught by the great philosopher Aristotle.

In one of the excerpts of the book, I came across a one-page text that seems to me have come from a blog by an agile management expert.

Let´s go to the excerpt then…

“The higher its type, always the seldomer doth a thing succeed. Ye higher men here, have you ye not all been failures?”

And follow…

“What wonder even that ye have failed and only half-succeded, ye half-shattered ones! Doth not man´s future strive and struggle in you?”

See that here he seeks to motivate those who chase superior results, already saying that the error is a natural result of the process…

…Or be my friend, no mistake, no growth, so never believe in fairy tales, what is there is work, many mistakes, few hits, you know?

This is the essence of the agile, David Kelley already said (did he read Nietzsche?) “Failure sucks, but instructs.”

And there is more…

“What wonder that many a vessel shattereth! Learn to laugh at yourselves, as ye ought to laugh! Ye higher men. Oh, how much is still possible!”

That is, here he gives us a hint to view error as something positive, I remember he wrote this in 1885! Brilliant isn’t it!

Ah, he follows and gives another important tip…

“Set around you small, good, perfect things, ye higher men. Their golden maturity healeth the heart. The perfect teacheth one to hope.”

When I read this I thought…look at the guidance for creating small wins, the so-called quick wins, which help us solidifying results, cheer up team morale and demonstrate to those around us that “We are on the right way.”

Friends, I am increasingly convinced that we have a lot to learn from the great masters, there is a lot of concepts today with the label NEW that, in fact, has already been thought out and properly debugged in the classics.

I recommend this reading “Thus spoke Zarathustra” by Nietzsche, strong at times, revealing at others, in the end (I´m coming to the end), I feel closer to my truth.

Greeting to all…