Friedrich Nietzsche: accumulation, affirmation  and generosity (Salvador Dalí) – Alexander Nehamas: Life as literature –  Sigmund Freud – Lanier Anderson (redemption) – Joshua Landy  (self-fashioning and self-deception) – “The most personal, the most  creative” (Scorsese) – Aristotle: impossible but plausible is better  than implausible but possible – Nietzsche: from artists and poets we  have to learn to embellish reality (GS 299) – In life – Appreciate art,  and understand life as a work of art – Sell – Spin news – Negotiate,  empathize, and influence – Motivation – Mindfulness – Adaptatability –  Autarchy.