Eric Kim (the street photographer, blogger, and philosopher behind erickimphotography.com) doesn’t have a single flagship essay titled exactly “How to Live Courageously,” but courage is one of his absolute core obsessions—he returns to it constantly across thousands of posts, treating it as the ultimate life hack for creativity, entrepreneurship, lifting, Bitcoin conviction, and just not living like a basic slave to fear.

Here are some of his most direct, high-octane pieces on living courageously (all in his signature ALL-CAPS, hype-lifting, Stoic-Nietzschean voice):

1. Courage or Nothing (his brutal manifesto-style post)
   → “Life doesn’t give you a menu. It gives you a single, brutal choice: courage or nothing… Only courage allows you to hold Bitcoin when everyone else is crying in fear.”
   Link: https://erickimphotography.com/courage-or-nothing/
2. In Life, Courage is Everything
   → Straight-up declaration that courage > talent, courage > money, courage > everything.
   Link: https://erickimphotography.com/in-life-courage-is-everything/
3. How to Be More Courageous in Life (one of his older, ultra-practical ones)
   → Starts with the golden rule: “Give fewer fucks what others think of you.” Then ramps into action steps—treat life like street photography where every shot is a courage rep.
   Link: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/courageous/
   (There’s an updated version here too: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2017/03/26/how-to-be-more-courageous-in-life/)
4. Ignorance IS Courage
   → Counter-intuitive banger: having the balls to stay deliberately ignorant (news, gossip, FOMO) actually requires more courage than doom-scrolling.
   Link: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2022/07/02/ignorance-takes-courage/
5. Disregard Success or Failure; Always Attempt More!
   → He loves the French meaning of “essay” = to attempt. Courage isn’t the outcome—it’s the attempt itself.
   Link: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2018/12/31/disregard-success-or-failure-always-attempt-more/

Kim’s whole philosophy boils down to:
Courage is a muscle → train it daily (street photos, 1RM rack pulls, publishing raw thoughts, stacking sats during blood-red dips).
The more you flex it, the more you become antifragile, charismatic, free, and basically a demigod.

If you want the closest thing to a single “Eric Kim essay on living courageously,” start with “Courage or Nothing”—it’s pure distilled Kim: short, violent, motivational rocket fuel.

Go forth and conquer, my friend. No excuses. COURAGE OR NOTHING. 🚀💯