The Will to Power; group analysis of Nietzsche's notebook Thread

I've finally become motivated to read through Nietzsche's personal notebook, published now as The Will to Power. I bought a used copy from a dusty old bookstore while still caught up in what I'll call now my intellectual phase. I was a far weaker man then than I am now, and I suppose I bought it at least in part merely to adorn my bookshelf -- but now I say, fuck aestheticism!

I've found it far more accessible than anticipated. I can read a few passages, have an inspired epiphany, and set it down for another time!

If you've got a copy, please feel free to add in your own passages for discussion if the thread stops progressing. I'd like to start with passage 593;

To transform the belief "it is thus and thus" into the will "it shall become thus and thus."

I think this may be the most concise summary of Nietzsche's concept of a "will to power". I myself have endured a long bout of nihilistic objectivism, and fully agree that the paradigm described here as "it is thus and thus" is one to be overcome, and yet one thoroughly indoctrinated by modern Science.

But is living with such a paradigm as "it shall become thus and thus" naive and risky? Admittedly an attitude of great power, I can see the value of such a paradigm. But how can one effectively change the status quo without first understanding the status quo? And how can one understand the status quo without already being (or, in consequence, becoming) an objectivist?