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I'll periodically update my answer as ideas come to me.
I like Nietzsche because his ideas are about saying yes to life and living vigorously.
I recommend Nietzsche's "eternal recurrence" concept as a good starting point. Watch this video from minutes 0-2 & 8-11 to start, and if you really like it, get this course on Nietzsche in The Great Courses on Audible (the course lectures are by husband & wife philosopher professors).
More of his works are here: Friedrich Nietzsche - Wikisource, the free online library
I am told that the Walter Kauffmann translations of Nietzsche are the best (he's German).
The idea of eternal recurrence is that imagine whatever life you live, you will have to relive again & again for eternity. The point is to add weight to each minute of your life so that you appreciate it more.
His ideas are applicable to a well-lived life as a whole so I won't specify to why it benefits entrepreneurs.
Nietzsche convincingly calls BS on religious, philosophical, & intellectual so there are many bad ideas that he can help you see through.
But regarding the poisonous ones, he discusses the cloaked ways that the victim complex manifests itself in human affairs, particularly morality. The idea isn't that you should never treat people well, but rather what people often call virtue, morality, ethics, etc is often a series of rationalizations about whatever life they happen to have that can develop into full blown manipulations - think of any time that you've heard someone tell someone that "you're not allowed to have an opinion on this topic because you haven't suffered or because you are too fortunate." His thoughts on resentment are very important, as resentment / the victim complex affects all of us in some ways, and that what counts is a matter of degree.
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