Amor fati, love of fate, is Nietzsche’s formula for human greatness. It means affirming your life exactly as it is and as it was, with all its suffering, failures, and tragedies, without wishing a single thing had been different. Not passive resignation to circumstances you cannot control. Not stoic acceptance of hardship as necessary evil. But active love of everything that happened to you, everything you chose, everything you suffered, everything that shaped you into who you are. My formula for greatness in a human being, Nietzsche writes, is amor fati. That one wants nothing to be different, not forward,...