Nietzsche's formula for greatness: wanting nothing in your life to have gone differently
Nietzsche called 'amor fati,' or 'love of fate,' his personal formula for human greatness: not merely accepting everything that has happened to you, but wanting it, the good and the terrible alike, exactly as it occurred. It goes further than simple Stoic resignation, Nietzsche tied it to his idea of eternal recurrence, the thought experiment of living your exact life over infinitely; if you could genuinely affirm that prospect, you had achieved amor fati.