so one of the interesting unorthodox strategies or thoughts is that… If you have myopia, the hidden benefit is actually, you have insanely close macro vision. And if you want to put on your binoculars, you could just put on your prescription lenses.

also… One of the hidden benefits of having myopia is actually, maybe artistically there is also a hidden benefit… that pie seeing the faint outlines of something, you get a better design sense of things?

There’s also this funny theory that… A lot of the impressionist painters like van Gogh, actually did have myopia, and the way they were able to paint their artwork so beautifully and subtly is that… It would just be able to sense the Gaussian blur, faint outline of things?

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The blessing of myopia?

So myopia is essentially not being able to see long distances. For example if you gotta put on glasses in order to drive or bike, you have myopia.

Let’s actually super interesting is that as a kid growing up and up until now… Myopia is typically seen as like a really really bad thing, a really really negative disease which is actually very undesirable. But the truth is, I wonder if there is actually hidden benefits of myopia?

For example, having myopia… Like for example when I’m doing hot yoga or lifting weights without glasses on, one of the hidden benefits is actually I’m a lot less self-conscious? For example, I can’t really see whether people are staring at me or judging me or sizing me up or whatever, and as a consequence, I stay more focused on my practice? 

Also a random thing that I discovered is that actually ,,, if I want to 1000% focus on something, I actually must take off my glasses?

For example when I was attempting my 895.63KG GOD LIFT, which is essentially practically like very close to 2000 pounds… In order to just like, strip away all fear, noise and distractions, I actually had to kind of like squeeze my eyes really shut,

macro vision

So I think the way that a macro lens works is that, the focusing mechanism is set up in such a way that, it allows for a very very close focus. Actually kind of random… But my old micro 4/3 lens, the very impressive Leica Lumix 12mm f1.4 ASPH lens,,, a few years ago when I was having all you can eat Korean barbecue with Cindy, the camera accidentally fell out of my bag and the lens hit the ground first, which caused the focusing mechanism to misadjust,,, not enabling focusing to infinity.

But the hidden benefit that’s kind of randoms that now, it almost has a hidden super power of focusing insanely close?