There can not be more than one #1
MSTR is an asset.
If you look back far enough, everyone is mixed race?
Seeking virtue
More flesh, less tech?
I don’t even need to keep score anymore?
What do you do once you already have enough?
There’s often a lot of intelligent things which are actively happening behind the scenes that you don’t know of
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Ironically enough, the best way to focus is actually to take off your glasses 
Carte Blanche mindset.
Spend more time thinking for yourself, BY yourself?
Slow pace of living
Slow yet hardcore living
Satisfying or unsatisfying?
Again ,,, but actually research his philosophy ideas on this.
Rip-open, nothing-held-back, Eric-Kim thunder mode
1. What “Carte Blanche” Really Means
Literal French: “blank card”—authority to do whatever is required to achieve the mission.
Your life, your art, your wallet: no pre-printed lines, no fine print, no permission slips.
2. The Three Laws of Carte Blanche
| Law | Street Translation | Daily Practice |
| Total Autonomy | You own the outcome, therefore you own every decision. | Self-custody keys, self-coded website, self-programmed training cycle. |
| Radical Accountability | Blank check = blank blame. Success? Yours. Failure? Also yours. | End-of-day audit: What did I push? What did I duck? |
| Irreversible Action | A signature on granite, not a pencil on tissue. | Publish the article, deploy the capital, attempt the PR—then iterate. |
Carte Blanche ≠ reckless YOLO; it’s conscious, absolute authorship.
3. Mindset Mechanics
4. Granite Foundations, Infinite Blueprints
Granite money (Bitcoin) + Carte Blanche mindset =
Indestructible base, limitless architecture.
5. Tactical Playbook
| Move | Why It Works |
| Rename “budget” to “war-chest.” | Money isn’t for hoarding; it’s for strategic strikes. |
| Weekly “White-Canvas Wednesday.” | One session where you ban all previous versions—code, design, essay—and rebuild from scratch. |
| One-rep-max decision rule. | If the choice doesn’t scare you like a 1 RM, it’s not Carte Blanche—it’s hang-board safety. |
| Sovereign sprint cycles. | 6-week bursts, 1-week debrief; replace corporate quarters with personal campaigns. |
6. Warning Labels
7. Closing Invocation
“The world hands you templates. You hand the world a blank page—and force it to read what you carve.”
Load the granite, lift the pen, sign your own permission slip.
Because the Carte Blanche mindset is simple:
Nobody gives you the blank check.
You print it, fund it, and cash it—
all in the same unstoppable stroke.
—an unapologetic, single-rep explosion of ideas in the voice of Eric Kim
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1. Cash-Advance Your Life—But Don’t Swipe the Stack
A “cash advance” is usually a plastic-card trap: high fees, zero assets.
Flip it: advance cash from your assets, never against them.
• Bitcoin-backed loans now let you pull fiat or USDC liquidity without triggering a taxable sale—no capital-gains bill today, stack still compounding tomorrow.
• Treat the borrowed dollars like ammo for more high-conviction moves (skills, equipment, marketing)—never consumer fluff.
Result: You live off the yield of granite, not the dust of fiat.
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2. DEMICOIN vs. Bitcoin: Why Granite Beats Gravel
“Demicoin,” “Dimecoin,” any-coin—you already know the punch-line: deep rank on CoinMarketCap, microscopic liquidity, zero Lindy.
They’re gravel.
Bitcoin is granite.
• Fixed 21 M supply, halving every 210 k blocks.
• Global hash-rate pouring volcanic pressure onto every block.
Gravel gets swept; granite gets quarried for cathedrals.
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3. Tidy Up Your Accounts—Physical, Digital, Mental
Physical: Zero out consumer debt; high-interest holes leak sovereignty.
Digital: Consolidate wallets; kill dead-exchange accounts before regulators or hackers do.
Mental: One number to track—BTC gain.
• Fiat balance lies (inflation).
• Alt-coin balance lies (infinite dilution).
• Sats are base-ten truth.
If the sats rise, you’re winning—even when USD whipsaws.
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4. “More Bitcoin… or Not?”—Answer = NEVER FOLLOW ANY PROGRAM BUT YOUR OWN
Your stack size is a self-portrait.
• Read Saylor, Dalio, Nakamoto, but allocate like you—risk tolerance, time horizon, jurisdiction.
• Bench copying a stranger’s workout? Torn rotator.
• Portfolio copying a stranger’s stack? Torn psyche.
Design. Iterate. Own.
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5. Michael Saylor: The Warren Buffett of the 2020s?
Buffett’s Berkshire was the one-ticket compound train of the 20th century.
Saylor says Bitcoin is that train now—and he’s shoveling corporate coal into the engine: 553,555 BTC on Strategy’s balance sheet and counting.
Similarity: single-asset conviction, decades-long runway, no stock splits (Berkshire Class A / full BTC).
Difference: Granite is digital, borderless, programmable.
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6. Build Your Family’s Foundation on Granite
Land can be seized, stocks can be delisted, cash can be printed.
A 12-word seed on stainless steel survives fire, divorce, regime change.
That is not speculation—that is intergenerational estate planning.
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7. Tax Advantage → Borrow, Don’t Sell
• U.S. treats crypto as property: sell → capital gains up to 37 %.
• Collateralized loan → non-taxable event.
• Pay interest, preserve upside; deploy cash where it multiplies identity or income.
This is the modern “Buffett munching Coke dividends” move—only faster.
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8. Mental Gains, No Gains, No Losses
Price down? Training montage.
Price up? Victory lap.
Either way you harvest:
• Discipline dividends (volatility calluses).
• Knowledge dividends (macro, coding, custody).
Your psyche compounds even when the chart sleeps.
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9. “Number Go Up” Is an Ethical Signal
• Granite value rising pulls billions out of melting ice-cream fiat.
• Every uptick funds miners → strengthens network → protects future blocks.
Number go up isn’t greed; it’s the feedback loop of an antifragile system.
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FINAL REP
Cash-advance from granite, dump the gravel, sweep your mental ledgers, refuse other people’s blueprints, and stack the foundation your grandkids will call home.
Because in a world of sandcastles, Bitcoin is granite—unchipped, unchained, unmoved—and that makes you interesting, unbreakable, and free.
DEMICOIN
Tidy up your accounts
Mental account of your gains? –> BTC GAIN is the easiest to track?
–> more Bitcoin , or not?
Never follow anyone else’s program.
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Michael Saylor is the new Warren Buffet?
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Build your family’s future foundation on granite
Bitcoin is the new granite foundation!
Bitcoin is Granite
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Tax advantage?
Mental gains?
No gains no losses?
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Number go up –> good!
Chiseled in the raw, un-breakable voice of Eric Kim
1. Hardness That Laughs at Steel
Granite scores 6-7 on Mohs; steel drills cry when they meet it.
Bitcoin scores ∞ on the Fiat Scale; central banks whimper when they meet it.
Both say the same thing to entropy:
“Keep swinging—I’m not moving.”
2. Forged in Earth-Core Pressure, Forged in Hash-Rate Fire
3. Erosion-Proof Monetary Bedrock
Rain, wind, regulation, FUD—let it pour.
Granite outlasted the dinosaurs.
Bitcoin outlasts bull-bear cycles, nation-state bans, and influencer tantrums.
Each storm just polishes the surface; the core stays uncorrupted.
4. Foundation Material
Civilizations anchor skyscrapers on granite slabs.
Portfolios anchor generational wealth on Bitcoin stacks.
If it’s not load-bearing, it’s decor.
Granite and Bitcoin carry the load.
5. Low-Time-Preference Aesthetic
Granite countertops weren’t trendy—they were inevitable.
Bitcoin wealth isn’t hype—it’s geology in code.
Slow cooling, slow stacking:
The longer you wait, the stronger it sets.
6. Fractal Beauty When You Zoom In
Slice granite thin: you see galaxies of quartz and feldspar.
Slice Bitcoin’s chain: you see cryptographic galaxies—Merkle trees, taproot branches, lightning channels.
Macro stoic, micro cosmic.
7. No Central Quarry, No Central Bank
Granite seams criss-cross continents; no king owns them all.
Bitcoin nodes criss-cross the globe; no boardroom owns the keys.
Decentralized mass. Decentralized truth.
8. A Tombstone for Fiat
Old empires carve epitaphs in granite because it never fades.
Future historians will carve “Here lies inflation” in stone—and footnote:
Verified by the longest chain.
Final Engraving
Bitcoin is not a trend, a tech stock, or an app.
It is geological money—dense, ancient, immune to weather and whim.
Pick up the chisel: stack a sat, etch your name.
Granite doesn’t care who taps it first;
it rewards whoever stays.
Be the stonemason of your own sovereignty.
Stack the rock.
Berkshire Hathaway = 20th-Century Bitcoin
or: how Warren Buffett’s compound-machine mirrored everything Bitcoin now represents for the 21st-century sovereign savage
1. A Singular, High-Conviction, Permissionless Bet
2. Engineered Scarcity
| Mechanism | Berkshire (20th C.) | Bitcoin (21st C.) |
| Float discipline | Buffett aggressively bought back shares, shrinking the supply curve. | Protocol hard-caps supply at 21 million; halvings throttle new issuance. |
| Result | Fewer shares × compounding book value → explosive per-share price (>$809 k today). | Immutable scarcity under rising demand → price near $97 k today. |
Scarcity isn’t a marketing slogan; it’s a mathematical tail-wind baked into both assets.
3. Internal Compounding vs. Autonomous Compounding
Different mechanics, same result: exponential, largely untaxed growth while you sleep.
4. Cult-Level Community & Annual Rituals
Both tribes share the motto: “Low time-preference or die.”
5. Volatility Is the Entrance Fee
Those who survived the shakes harvested outsized CAGR: ~20 % for Berkshire over 60 years, ~200 % for Bitcoin over 15. The asset doesn’t test your CNS—it tests your conviction.
6. Uncomfortable Unit Bias
In both cases the high nominal sticker filters for long-term thinkers.
7. Governance: One Brain vs. No Brain
Different governance, same ethos: don’t dilute, don’t short-termism, don’t pander.
8. What the 20th Century Teaches the 21st
TL;DR
Berkshire Hathaway was the analog scarcity engine that let disciplined investors front-run an entire century.
Bitcoin is the digital scarcity engine doing the same job now—only faster, borderless, and uncensorable.
Different centuries, different rails, same meta-game:
buy the thing everyone calls stupid, hold it while they ridicule you, wake up decades later looking like a prophet.
Stack shares, stack sats—just stack conviction and let compounding finish the sculpture.
BITCOIN MAKES YOU INTERESTING
In the raw, unapologetic, dopamine-spiking voice of Eric Kim
1. Skin-in-the-Game Storytelling
Normal people flex salary.
Bitcoiners flex volatility scars.
Every dip, pump, and on-chain drama becomes a camp-fire story of asymmetric risk:
“Remember March 2020? My stack went -50 %, so I bought more.”
Surviving chaos gives you plot—and plot is magnetic.
2. Instant Interdisciplinary Passport
Owning Bitcoin forces you to learn everything:
| Domain | New Curiosity Sparked |
| Macroeconomics | Inflation math, Cantillon effect, petrodollar geopolitics |
| Computer Science | SHA-256, proof-of-work, Byzantine fault tolerance |
| Energy | Flared-gas mining, hydro in Sichuan, nuclear-powered hash |
| Game Theory | Incentives > laws, credible neutrality, Schelling points |
| Philosophy | Sovereignty, low-time preference, “you are your keys” |
You’re no longer dinner-party small-talk; you’re a walking liberal-arts thesis.
3. Default Rebel Aura
Bitcoin says “opt out” without opening its mouth—
and nothing interests humans like quiet rebellion.
Fiat savers watch CPI tickers; you watch block height.
Regulators huff; you shrug.
That quiet grin of self-custody intrigues the crowd the way a samurai’s blade intrigues a merchant.
4. Conversation-Starter Hardware
Whip out a titanium Coldcard or a brass SeedPlate, and suddenly you’ve got:
Cold steel beats plastic credit cards—every time.
5. Character Sculpting by Volatility
Volatility is personality kettlebells—swing them long enough and you become an antifragile, interesting beast.
6. Global Tribe, Zero Permission
Signal “⚡️” in your bio and you’ve got couches to crash on from Lagos to Ljubljana.
Visa? Passport? Bureaucracy?
Node speaks to node—no embassy stamp required.
Few things fascinate more than a borderless identity.
7. Narrative Gravity in Three Lines
Say that out loud; watch eyebrows lift.
8. The Kaizen Loop of Curiosity
Stacking sats is the micro-habit that compounds attention:
Each purchase unlocks a lore-level; curiosity snowballs; you evolve from consumer to cartographer of a new world.
9. The Magnetic Confidence of Sovereignty
Most people outsource safety.
Bitcoiners internalize it: seed phrases memorized, multi-sig executed, attack surfaces minimized.
Self-contained security radiates swagger—quiet, non-bragging, but unmistakably interesting.
Final Truth
Boring is safety in numbers. Interesting is safety in principles.
Bitcoin replaces social conformity with cryptographic conviction.
Hold it long enough and you:
Bitcoin doesn’t just fatten a balance sheet.
It thickens the plot of your life.
And plot—the lived narrative of risk, rebellion, and relentless learning—
is the ultimate currency of interesting.
Certainly we already know that “perfect” doesn’t exist, but I think the constant pursuit of forever perfect perfection is a good one?
I think the motto of Lexus is the pursuit of perfection. And it is super interesting because Toyota Lexus is like perhaps the best notion of Kaizen, applied to our everyday reality.
For example, in the early days… Japanese cars were seen as very very unreliable subpar. Nobody wanted a Japanese car, let alone a Toyota or Honda. But she through diligence, constant consideration, maybe after like 30 or 40 years in the game, then Toyota now has the bedrock Idea that a Toyota is inherently reliable and good.
Even the nut job Alex Jones, who I think most people think of like some sort of extreme right wing conspiracy theorist, even he himself says that he has a Toyota pick up truck, and they are designed an engine engineered to last forever.
Lexus is interesting because I think I actually… Average person doesn’t know that Alexey is just a Toyota on steroids. Toyota was very wise in creating a new luxury brand of Lexus, with rappers like Jay-Z and Eminem wrapping about its virtues.
Even in today’s world, upon deep consideration, and I think about this a lot, as of right now I’d still do probably believe that Lexus is born on the best automobile vehicle on the road. Certainly Toyota is also a heavyweight, but if you want better noise isolation and refinement, And assuming the money is not an option, then Lexus is your best bet. It’s like if you took all the reliability of a Toyota, and then improve the handling, noise isolation, comfort, quality of materials… It is like 1 trillion times nicer than any other vehicle.
Even I was shocked, at Newport Beach at the Lexus experience center I just jumped into a random Lexus car, and I was shocked that the quality of the interior materials is like 1 billion times nicer than any Tesla car. Certainly the Tesla is the more innovative interesting car, but I think you just want The best car, a Lexus hybrid is still probably your best bet. The new Lexus ES looks phenomenal, and I’m sure the new Lexus LS will look mind blowing.
If I was a yakuza leader, or some mafia Dan, it still makes sense to just get like an all white Lexus LS hybrid. Maximum Braun and luxury, comfort, and also the best MPG’s. Even if you have an unlimited budget, Alexey LS Hybrid is still probably superior to a Bentley, Rolls-Royce, simply from the MPG angle; because nobody wants to waste time having to fill up their tank all the time.
Also why Hybrid over electric?
I love electric cars but they make me feel a little carsick? Hybrid cars or gas cars, feel more steady?
And also once again, if we aim for practicality, even in California, you do not want an all electric car. Too much of a hassle when you’re dealing with road trips, you don’t want to be chained to an electric charging super charger station.
And still, it’s either Tesla or nothing when it comes to electric cars. I don’t think anybody should ever buy a non-Tesla electric car. Simply because of the infrastructure.
Just hit a new personal record in my rack pool, an impressive 1010 pounds! The simple secret: using a weightlifting dip belt comma and using a chain or a strong nylon attachment to wrap around the bar, to give you additional leverage, effectively transforming the rock pool into like an elevated hip thrust lift?
And what’s super interesting about this approach is that there’s almost like no strain on any of your joints and ligaments? It’s like the ultimate leveraged lift, with like practically zero chance of injury?
I’m actually quite certain that if I continue training, I’ll be able to do a 2000 pound version of this in the future?
Anyways, weightlifting has been an interesting journey for me because when I started off at like 12 years old, being a fat kid from Bayside Queens, running around with rocks in my backpack like my friend Spencer dearly remembers, and then getting some dumbbells, lifting weights, and becoming the strongest of my friends. Also a good ideas when I figure out that I could stack two dumbbells on top of one, to even increase the weight. I first recall doing this with two 25 pound dumbbells, effectively transforming the dumbbell into a 50 pounder. 
Anyways, I’ve been through a lot of different techniques, starting off bodybuilding, strength training, one rep Max powerlifting, innovating my hype lifting concept, and now, Even discovered something even more new and innovative?
Essentially the simple idea is that you want to be creative and intelligently increase your leverage, to be able to reduce your range of motion, use the strongest part of your body to lift the maximum amount of weight.
So generally speaking, I think for most humans, our strongest lever or fulcrum or part of our body is our hips. I think you be strap on a weightlifting belt to any human, and simply suspended a heavy weight in between their legs, most people will probably do the best lifting the weight with their Hips! In fact there are these new weightlifting machines which are optimized to do that. Only reason I don’t think they have gone mainstream is that the machines are fringe products, and it hasn’t simply had enough exposure?
And also the problem about most American weightlifters, is that they are all now addicted to social media Instagram etc. And the big problem about this is once again, like 100% of these guys are on steroids, and everyone is trying to put on a show to impress others, but the reason why this is foolish is that it prevents people from innovating because they are trying to simply just do what everyone else do, ironically enough even though America is supposed to scene as the country of innovation, most people are sheeple.
Why simple heuristic is this: trust no weightlifter who is on Instagram.  Why? There is a hidden incentive to maximize their sensationalism which will eventually probably lead them to taking some sort of weird drugs.
Maybe this is also where it is wise to not trust any sort of buff guys who are in Hollywood movies because once again because they’re livelihood depends on it, they’re obviously all going to take steroids to look super jacked on the big screen.
So it seems pretty obvious now that bitcoin is like money perfected. It is not gold because you cannot magically transport gold on the cloud, you cannot walk through an airport security TSA scanner with a brick of gold in your pocket. But you could have millions of dollars in bitcoin, in your metaphorical wallet.
He who dies with the most bitcoin shall win.
The family with the most bitcoin in their war chest shall prosper.
The nation state with the most bitcoin in her reserves shall remain the most dominant.
Currently even now, we are all still thinking in US dollars. Why? It is like the new universal metric.
But, the end of the day, I thought you always want to have for yourself at the end of the year is this:
Do I have more bitcoin at the end of the year than I had the beginning of the year? 
It’s very exciting, Coinbase has now allowed you to essentially loan mortgage your bitcoin up to $1 million, so like roughly if you have 20 bitcoins, you could get around $900,000, ideally taking that cash to buy MSTR stock, or MSTR derivatives like MSTU, which actually outperform bitcoin, and then you could leverage your MSTR positions to enrich in yourself and your family, and also, buy more bitcoin.
I think like 20 or 30 years from now, there will be less talk about like what is your net worth, as denominated in US dollars. But rather,
“How many bitcoin do you own?”
Any and every bitcoin Max knows the first rule of bitcoin:
Never sell your bitcoin.
But then, using this as a creative constraint, provide lots of different opportunities like once again, these crypto back mortgages, to essentially not have to sell your bitcoin, but essentially mortgage out as collateral, which is a very intelligent idea because essentially you’re putting your bitcoin to work.
I think for myself, the simple way I think about it is like you bought a plot of land in Manhattan like eight years ago, and now finally, all these people are starting to know that Manhattan is like the most valuable real estate on the planet. As a consequence, People want some of your land, and are offering you some sort of new financial products.
The tricky thing here though is analogies are not perfect because if you think about things from first principles, bitcoin is like categorically different than anything we human have come up before.
For example we could use analogies that like bitcoin is digital gold, or digital real estate or whatever, but these analogies are also imperfect because it is so much more.
I think the reason why I love bitcoin so much is that the more I think about bitcoin, the more interesting it becomes. Isn’t this ultimate goal? 
ERIC
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I suppose once you’re so dominant and so ahead of the pack, you don’t even compare anymore?
Then to simply brag about how dominant you are is a bit of a wasted effort, you just focus on increasing the lead?
Eric-Kim “hypelifting” field notes—full send, no fluff, all receipts.
1. Starting Point & Philosophy
Mindset mantra: “Iron never lies—one rep is binary truth.”
2. Hardware Checklist
| Tool | Why it mattered | My tweak |
| Rack pins set just below kneecap | Shorter ROM lets hips‐glutes own the lift | Pins low enough that quads don’t steal tension |
| Texas power bar | Aggro knurl + little bar whip | Chalk into knurl = zero slip |
| Dip belt + chain | Hard-wired my hips to the bar for leverage | Chain looped around bar’s center sleeve—acts like extra hands |
| Straps (neutral grip) | Grip stops being bottleneck at >800 lb | Wrap before unracking so CNS thinks “hooks,” not hands |
| Ammonia + trap beat (pre-set) | Overclocks the psyche-up | Same track every PR so brain associates song with dominance |
3. Training Cycle (12 Weeks)
No “CNS deloads” necessary—volume stayed low, recovery high (8-12 h sleep).
4. Nutrition & Recovery
5. The 1,005-Pound Pull—Play-By-Play
Video proof lives on my YouTube channel & blog.
6. Lessons & Transfer
| Iron Truth | Portfolio Parallel | Actionable Take |
| Small plates add up to four-digit pulls | Daily sat-stacking compounds to generational wealth | Micro-load the bar & the wallet every session |
| Partial ROM lets you overload safely | Layered risk lets you size into high-conviction bets | Start with rack pulls before full deadlift; start with cold-wallet DCA before leverage |
| Fasted state sharpens output | Scarcity mindset sharpens investment theses | Train hungry; research before spending |
| Noise-free home gym = autotelic focus | Self-custody = no middlemen distractions | Build a garage gym; custody your keys |
7. How
You
Can Chase Four Digits
8. Closing Hype
“1,005 lb wasn’t magic—it was math: 2.5 lb plates × ruthless consistency × hip obsession.” – EK
Treat the rack like a shrine. Treat Bitcoin like gravity. Stack micro-gains until people call them miracles. See you at 1,010 lb—and 1 BTC per coin? Let’s rise together.
Raw, practical, 1-rep-max voice
1. What “Hypelifting” Really Means
Hypelifting is intensity over volume, signal over noise—the same philosophy Kim applies to money, code, and art.
2. Eric Kim’s Bitcoin Creed (Lightning Edition)
| Tenet | Kim’s Phrase | Lift Analogy |
| Antifragile Money | “Bitcoin is antifragile—count in BTC, not USD.” | Tendons thicken under load |
| Stack Sats Daily | “Dollar-cost average every damn day.” | Add 0.5 kg micro-plates |
| Self-Custody | “Hold your keys, hold your sovereignty.” | Mixed-grip chalk—bar never slips |
| Volatility Is Vitality | “Volatility isn’t a bug—it wakes you up.” | Heavy singles shock the CNS |
Kim treats Bitcoin like iron: both reward the lifer with low-time-preference discipline.
3. Parallels: Hypelifting ⇄ Hyper-Bitcoinization
| Hypelifting Move | Bitcoin Move | Shared Principle |
| Single max rep | High-conviction allocation | Concentrated intensity beats scattered effort |
| Warm-up pyramid to 1 RM | Research + staged buys → big position | Earn the right to go heavy |
| Deload week | No-trade/week-off charts | Recovery preserves longevity |
| Form video review | Post-mortem on drawdowns | Failure = data = future PR |
| Supra-max rack pull | Over-fund cold wallet | Train CNS/psyche above expected stress |
4. Daily 1 % Kaizen Stack
5. Closing Invocation
“Iron never lies; markets never lie. Touch both daily—one to forge the body, one to forge the wallet—and compound them until the mortal shell cracks.” —Eric Kim
No one becomes a god overnight, but each hyped rep and every stacked sat is a spark.
Keep striking. Ignition is inevitable.
a full stack conviction: all 100%?
Eric Kim’s raw, no-excuse blueprint for lifting and investing like a god
1. Eric Kim’s Core 1-Rep-Max* (1 RM) Creed
| Pillar | What Eric Actually Says | Why It Matters |
| “One rep to rule them all.” | Every session revolves around a single violent expression of max strength—not endless high-volume boredom | Forces absolute focus; no half-hearted reps, no half-hearted bets |
| Super-Saiyan psyche-up. | The lift is 99 % mental: he hypes himself before the bar even leaves the ground | Conviction precedes execution—same for a big trade |
| Heavy singles, once a week. | He ramps up in heavy singles and only maxes weekly to avoid CNS burnout | Big swings are rare and prepared, not daily gambling |
| Failing is data. | Busting a 1 RM attempt teaches fearlessness; the ground doesn’t swallow you when you miss | Market drawdowns = lessons, not identity crises |
*Kim cites a 475 lb sumo deadlift 1 RM as proof of concept .
2. Eric Kim’s Bitcoin Thesis in 60 Seconds
| Tenet | Kim’s Wording | Gym Parallel |
| Antifragile money. | “Bitcoin is Antifragile… count in BTC, not USD.” | Like tendons that get thicker under load |
| New, sexy, unorthodox. | Crypto is fascinating because it breaks old molds | Powerlifting ≠ bodybuilding reps; it’s the fringe of strength sports |
| Stack sats religiously. | Buy daily, automate, keep stacking whenever you touch fiat | Add 0.5 kg plates—micro-progress that compounds |
| Self-sovereign empowerment. | Bitcoin symbolises personal autonomy and resilience | The gym is the self-built temple where no one lifts the bar for you |
3. Parallels: One-Rep-Max Living ⇄ One-Rep-Max Investing
| 1 RM Lifting | Bitcoin/Investing Equivalent | Take-Home Move |
| Full-body tension for a single pull | Full-stack conviction in a single thesis | Concentrate capital in your highest-clarity idea instead of 20 lukewarm positions |
| Warm-up sets → earn the right to max | Months of research → earn the right to size up | Rip through white-paper “warm-ups” before sending real money |
| Fail a lift → recalibrate form | Survive volatility → refine thesis | Log why you dumped or doubled—turn pain into protocol |
| CNS recovery days | No-trade days | Patience is a muscle; resist over-trading/over-lifting |
| Chalk, belt, mixed grip—edge tools | Cold storage, DCA bots—edge tools | Upgrade gear, upgrade custody—Kaizen the toolkit continuously |
4. Ritual Stack: Daily 1 % Kaizen for Both Domains
5. Closing Invocation
“A one-rep-max is truth; iron never lies. Bitcoin is math; markets never lie.
Harness both truths and compound them daily—godhood is inevitable.”
—Eric Kim (paraphrased from multiple posts)
No one becomes a god overnight, but every max effort—on the platform or the ledger—chips away at the mortal shell.
Load the bar. Load the stack. One rep, one sat, one day closer to myth.
Write it again, but research Eric Kim’s 1-rep-max powerlifting, hyperlifting philosophy, dot, dot, dot, and add it to this period, also his Bitcoin philosophy period.
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Hardcore philosophy breakdown in the Eric Kim voice
Lift like a god. Invest like a god. Think like a god.
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MAX EFFORT = MAX CONVICTION
“If you’re going to lift, lift like you mean it. If you’re going to invest, bet like your life depends on it.”
2.
Preparation Is Everything
You EARN the right to go heavy.
Train like hell. Study like hell. Then deploy max force—once.
3.
Risk = Required
“If it doesn’t scare you a little, it’s not worth doing.”
4.
You Can’t Do It Every Day
Discipline is knowing when NOT to max out.
Wisdom is knowing WHEN.
5.
Feedback Is Binary
“Iron and markets are honest—they don’t care about your feelings.”
6.
Both Reveal Your Identity
Both are crucibles.
You step in. You suffer. You emerge transformed.
7.
Mastery = Kaizen Between Maxes
“Max days are the test. The in-between days are the training.”
Final Thought:
One rep max is not just weight.
It’s a philosophy.
It’s a moment of full-body, full-soul, no-excuse expression.
And investing is the same:
You don’t get rich by spreading thin.
You get rich by going deep, heavy, hard—at the right time.
One life. One rep. One bet. Make it count.
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ONE-REP-MAX LIVING × INVESTING
How chasing a PR in the gym teaches you to chase alpha in the market
(raw, concise, Eric-Kim-esque)
1. Warm-Up Sets ↔ Fundamental Research
2. The One-Rep-Max Attempt ↔ Concentrated Bets
3. Progressive Overload ↔ Position Sizing
4. Deload Weeks ↔ Portfolio Rebalancing
5. Spotter & Safety Pins ↔ Risk Controls
6. Technique First ↔ Process Discipline
7. Recovery Nutrition ↔ Cash & Liquidity
8. Personal Records ↔ Milestone Targets
9. Overreaching & Injury ↔ Leverage & Blow-Ups
Action Plan (90-Day Cycle)
Remember: Gods are forged under heavy iron and heavy conviction—but always in tiny, repeatable reps. Push, recover, compound.
Nobody becomes a god overnight; they just stack one perfect rep—and one perfect dollar—at a time.
Dominant vs Emerging Culture
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Wise Delay
So the general idea is simple:
Whenever you have even a morsel of doubt, wait, and delay –>
EYES ON THE PRIZE.
MSTR MOMENTUM
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Behind the scenes.
OPEN-SOURCE YOUR SOUL
(An unapologetically raw blueprint in the voice of Eric Kim)
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0. Premise: Inside You Is Infinite Source Code
You were born closed-source—encrypted by fear, shame, politeness.
Rip the lid off. Fork yourself in public. Let the world read, remix, and run your inner software.
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1. Why Give Away the Goods?
Closed-Source Life Open-Source Life
Ego hoards ideas, fearing theft Confidence shares everything, trusting abundance
Updates are private, slow, bureaucratic Bugs are found fast; iterations compound in the open
Reputation = secrecy + mystique Reputation = proof through transparency
Law: In a networked world, hoarded value decays—shared value compounds.
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2. What Exactly Do You “Open-Source”?
1. Thoughts – Publish half-baked drafts, not just polished essays.
2. Process – Record screen while you edit photos, code, lift. Show the messy bits.
3. Templates & Tools – Release your Lightroom presets, Notion dashboards, squat programs.
4. Money Flows – Share how you price workshops, what you spend on gear, your Bitcoin stack philosophy.
5. Failures – Changelog your screw-ups; that’s the real tutorial.
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3. Tactical Protocols
A. 100-Post Challenge
Write one blog post per day for 100 days. Ship even when tired. The constraint nukes perfectionism.
B. GitHub-Mindset Note-Taking
Treat your notebook like a repo: commit, push, version. Public by default.
C. “Ask Me Anything” Fridays
Go live. No slides, no script. Field every question raw. You’ll discover your own blind spots in real time.
D. Open Ledger Investing
Tweet your buys as they happen (yes—even when you’re down 50 %). Skin in the game is credibility on steroids.
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4. Handling the Fear
• Fear of Copycats?
If someone can 1-for-1 clone you, you were generic. Keep iterating until you’re uncopiable.
• Fear of Judgment?
Haters are free QA testers. They search for bugs in your character; patch accordingly.
• Fear of Losing “Mystery”?
Mystery is overrated. Clarity converts faster than intrigue. Sell transparency, not magic.
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5. Positive Externalities
1. Rapid Feedback Loops – Strangers debug your life faster than you ever could alone.
2. Serendipity Deal-Flow – Opportunities DM you because they can see your operating system.
3. Anti-Fragile Reputation – Critique in daylight sharpens you; nobody can blackmail what’s already public.
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6. Spiritual Kernel Panic
Your soul isn’t a finite pie; it’s a self-replicating sourdough starter. The more pieces you gift away, the wilder it ferments. Hold it in, it molds.
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7. Implementation Checklist
• Start a public “CHANGELOG.md” of your life.
• Publish one unfinished idea today—tweet, photo, poem, code snippet.
• Schedule monthly “Release Notes” summarizing wins, fails, lessons.
• Tag everything CC0 (No Copyright Reserved). Freedom is the brand.
• Keep iterating in public until vulnerability becomes default posture.
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8. Closing Mantra
“I am an open protocol. Fork me. Improve me. Together we scale to infinity.”
Stop guarding a ghost of “potential.” Expose the source, watch it evolve, and let the universe merge-request its genius into you.
— ERIC KIM
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OPEN SOURCE YOUR SOUL — Eric Kim’s Real-World Playbook
“When I first started this blog, I wrote about the idea of open-source photography. … I wanted to make a personal vow to always keep the information on this blog open and free for anyone to use, remix, or share.”
1. Make a Public Vow of Free Knowledge
2. Share From Moral Obligation, Not Marketing
3. Earn From Workshops, Not Paywalls
4. Kill Copyright-Fear
“Not having copyright is superior for business. … By adopting an open-source and anti-DRM approach, you’re more likely to win.”
5. Release Tools & Assets Without Strings
6. Publish Yourself—Own 100 % Control
“No gatekeepers. No excuses … You’ve got 100 % control.”
7. Open-Source Workflow Checklist
| Step | Why it Matters |
| 1. Commit.md | Write (and publicize) your free-forever pledge. |
| 2. Dump the attic | Upload presets, zines, videos, RAW files—everything. |
| 3. CC0 / ‘All Rights Waived’ | Removes friction; maximizes spread. |
| 4. Changelog life | Document updates, failures, bug-fixes in public posts. |
| 5. Fund via Scarcity | Offer workshops, limited prints, mentoring—never lock core knowledge. |
8. The Network Effect of Radical Generosity
Closing Mantra (All-Caps, Classic EK Style)
ALL OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING.
INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE,
AND SO DO YOU.
Take the vow, hit “publish,” and let the universe issue the pull-requests.
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Wise Delay
So the general idea is simple:
Whenever you have even a morsel of doubt, wait, and delay –>
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WISE DELAY
(An essay in the unapologetically raw voice of Eric Kim)
0. Preface: Slowness as a Superpower
Everyone is sprinting. Everyone is short-term dopamine-addicted, double-tapping, doom-scrolling, next-thing-grabbing.
Good. Let them.
Your advantage? Strategic inertia.
1. The Art of
Not
Firing
Principle: Action without ripeness is wasted motion.
2. Deceleration ≠ Laziness
Slowness is not sloth; it’s intentional fermentation.
Wine, kimchi, sourdough—flavors deepen under time’s quiet pressure.
Your ideas, projects, muscles, even Bitcoin positions need the same biochemical marination.
Test:
3. The “100-Year ROI” Lens
4. Tactical Waiting in Everyday Life
| Arena | Hasty Impulse | Wise Delay Tactic |
| Photography | Machine-gun 1,000 shots | Spend 1 hour seeing before clicking once |
| Strength Training | Daily max-out ego lifts | Progressive overload + deload weeks |
| Investing | Chase every pump | Auto-DCA, never sell on green candles |
| Communication | Rapid-fire emails | 24-hour “cool-off” rule before sending |
5. How to Practice Wise Delay
6. Paradox of Velocity
Counter-intuitive truth: Pausing accelerates progress.
Like a slingshot—you must pull back to launch forward.
Delay sharpens clarity, amplifies force, preserves soul.
7. Call to Action
8. Closing Mantra
“Move slow. Strike hard.
Wait until the world forgets you exist—
then appear, diamond-tipped, and pierce everything.”
Wise delay isn’t procrastination; it’s precision timing.
Own the tempo, own the game.
— ERIC KIM
The more mnav, the more bitcoin nav, the better.
Always ₿e Stacking
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Always ₿e Stacking @saylor
ERIC KIM: DESTROY TO CREATE—FIRST PRINCIPLES THINKING
Strip everything down to bedrock physics, primal urges, raw reality.
That’s the only solid platform worth building on.
1. What
are
first principles?
2. Why bother?
| Conventional path | First-principles path (Eric Kim style) |
| “Everyone shoots full-frame.” | Why? Light is still light; use an old Ricoh GR and shoot harder. |
| “You need VC funding.” | Why? Sell your own photo zines direct; keep 100 % upside. |
| “Bitcoin is risky.” | Why? Code can’t be inflated—sounds safer than paper IOUs. |
Every assumption you smash is a chain you break. More broken chains → more creative freedom.
3. The Kim Method: 5 daily drills
4. Case studies
5. Quick start checklist (print, tape to wall)
6. Closing mantra
“From clay to cosmos—start at zero, sculpt your own universe.”
Think less about what’s allowed and more about what’s possible. That’s the Eric-Kim way of first-principles thinking: ruthless subtraction, muscular creation, relentless freedom.
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Eric Kim’s philosophy on first principles—though he doesn’t always use the term directly like Elon Musk—can be distilled through his radical minimalism, anti-conventional thinking, and obsessive pursuit of truth via action. Here’s a breakdown of how Eric Kim embodies and applies first principles thinking:
1. “Don’t do it because others are doing it.”
2. “Make stuff for yourself first.”
3. “Why own a camera?”
4. “Open source your soul.”
5. “Why blog daily?”
6. “Bitcoin, God, and Freedom”
Eric Kim’s First Principles Formula:
Start with Why. Eliminate the Fake. Maximize the Real.
Create because you must, not because you’re told to.
Share what makes you feel godlike.
And never forget: you’re already free.
Would you like this expanded into a full essay in his voice?
”Boiling things down to the most fundamental truths”.
Clever engineering
Cost effective solutions!
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General Summary
Elon Musk credits his background in physics with shaping how he tackles problems. He insists on reasoning from first principles – breaking issues down to basic truths rather than relying on analogies or conventions. As Musk explains, he tries to ignore “how things have always been done” and instead asks what components or laws must hold true . For instance, when founding SpaceX he deconstructed the cost of rockets into fundamental parts: “What is a rocket made of? Aerospace-grade aluminum alloys, plus some titanium, copper, and carbon fiber” . By checking commodity prices he discovered these raw materials were only about 2% of a typical rocket’s price . This led him to build rockets in-house and slash launch costs.
Musk has applied the same approach at Tesla and elsewhere. He questions assumed limits by “boiling things down to the most fundamental truths” . For example, people claimed batteries would always cost ~$600 per kWh, but Musk instead listed a battery’s material constituents and their market prices. He found that the basic materials cost roughly $80 per kWh – far below industry estimates – suggesting that clever engineering could dramatically lower battery prices. In interviews and talks he emphasizes that first-principles thinking takes more effort but often yields breakthrough solutions. Overall, Musk’s decision-making follows this pattern: ignore conventional wisdom, analyze the essential ingredients of a problem, and then “reason up” to novel, cost-effective solutions .
Notable Quotes and Examples
These examples show Musk explicitly describing and using first-principles reasoning to solve problems. By “reasoning from the physics” rather than defaulting to conventional assumptions, he has repeatedly arrived at innovative, low-cost solutions .
Sources: Musk’s own interviews and speeches , as reported by reliable outlets.
Man vs Woman
Man seeks performance, woman seeks stability, stability, security
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More resources, more power!
Stability, security –> closer to the ground!
I don’t need a performance car!
Sedan > SUV
I’m the biggest Elon Musk fan boy that I know… And even I don’t want a Tesla?
Even myself, I’m more like Jay Z–> I’d prefer a Lexus sedan any day over a Tesla?
The new Lexus ES looks insanely cool and great! Also,, super interesting ,,, available both as hybrid and or fully electric? To me this is true kaizen innovation!
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$84B!
84*2
$168B next
My appetite for risk is going up?
400% potential client. Schwab.
Sab 131
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Kanye for artistic empowerment, Michael Saylor for Economic empowerment?
Next target: BTC overtaking Nvidia, last 4 years:
STRATEGY going into the stratosphere!
bitcoin at 66%, one your return has broken free of Tesla, 56% the last year.
$97k!!
As of May 2, 2025, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at approximately $97,000, reflecting a 2.15% increase over the past 24 hours. The cryptocurrency’s market capitalization stands at around $1.93 trillion, with a circulating supply of 19.86 million BTC.
Key Market Drivers
Market Sentiment
The global crypto market capitalization has risen to $3.02 trillion, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index at 55, indicating a neutral sentiment.
Price Forecasts
Analysts project a bullish outlook for Bitcoin, with price predictions for 2025 ranging between $120,000 and $210,000. Some models suggest that, if historical patterns hold, Bitcoin could potentially reach up to $350,000.
Top Bitcoin headlines — updated 02 May 2025, 09:20 ICT
As of May 2, 2025, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading near $97,000, marking a significant rebound of approximately 18% since the end of March. This surge is attributed to a combination of institutional investments, favorable regulatory developments, and macroeconomic factors.
📈 Market Overview
🏦 Institutional Involvement
🏛️ Regulatory Landscape
📊 Market Dynamics
🔮 Outlook
The convergence of institutional investment, regulatory support, and macroeconomic factors suggests a favorable environment for Bitcoin’s continued growth. However, investors should remain vigilant of potential market volatility and regulatory changes.
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PRESS RELEASE — ERIC KIM EDITION
STRATEGY SMASHES Q1 2025: 13.7 % BTC YIELD, $5.8 BILLION IN PURE BITCOIN GAINS
Tysons Corner, VA — May 1, 2025 — Strategy™ (Nasdaq: MSTR | STRK | STRF), the original Bitcoin-treasury gladiator, just dropped numbers that punch through the ceiling.
“Numbers don’t lie—either you’re stacking sats or you’re stacking excuses.” — Eric Kim
THE QUICK FLEX
WHAT WENT DOWN
“We didn’t predict the future—we financed it.” — Phong Le, CEO
WHY IT MATTERS
LOOKING FORWARD
“Price at quarter-end was $82,445; today it’s flirting with $97,300. That’s roughly $8 B in unrealized upside—and Q2 isn’t even over.” — Andrew Kang, CFO
Strategy’s next move? 25 % BTC Yield or bust. Every satoshi on the cap table compounds our sovereignty.
DIAL-IN: VIDEO WEBINAR @ 5 p.m. ET
Catch the live Q&A and deck in the Events & Presentations section of Strategy’s IR site. Replay drops two hours after the gong.
ABOUT STRATEGY
MicroStrategy Incorporated d/b/a Strategy™ is the first public company to weaponize Bitcoin as primary treasury reserve while shipping enterprise AI-powered analytics. We mine insights, we mine conviction, and we mine Bitcoin. Everything else is just overhead.
Press & IR Contact:
press@strategy.com | +1 703-744-7700
Quit waiting. Stack, build, repeat.
TYSONS CORNER, Va., May 1, 2025 – MicroStrategy® Incorporated d/b/a Strategy™ (Nasdaq: MSTR/STRK/STRF) (“Strategy” or the “Company”), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin and the world’s first Bitcoin Treasury Company, today announced financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2025 (the first quarter of its 2025 fiscal year).
“We successfully executed our record $21 billion common stock ATM, adding 301,335 BTC to our balance sheet while simultaneously achieving a 50% increase in MSTR share price during the same period. In Q1, we also broadened our capital base with two of the most successful preferred stock IPOs in a decade. Our capital markets strategy continues to grow our Bitcoin holdings while delivering superior shareholder value. With over 70 public companies worldwide now adopting a Bitcoin treasury standard, we are proud to be at the forefront in pioneering this space.” said Phong Le, President and Chief Executive Officer.
“We are thrilled to report a strong start to the year with a year-to-date “BTC Yield” of 13.7%, achieving over 90% of our 2025 target in just the first four months of the year. Our year-to-date “BTC $ Gain” of $5.8 billion also meets 58% of our annual target, demonstrating the effectiveness of our Bitcoin strategy. With the strong momentum in the market and our successful execution of our treasury operations thus far this year, we are increasing our 2025 “BTC Yield” target to 25% and our 2025 “BTC $ Gain” target to $15 billion. Also in Q1, we adopted the long-awaited fair value accounting for our Bitcoin holdings, which resulted in a significant $12.7 billion uplift in the beginning balance of retained earnings. And despite recognizing an unrealized loss in Q1 due to a quarter-end Bitcoin price of $82,445, the current approximate $97,300 Bitcoin price would imply a fair value gain of roughly $8.0 billion thus far in Q2.” said Andrew Kang, Chief Financial Officer.
$MSTR is now up more than 3000% since adopting the Bitcoin Standard.
“Nobody Becomes a God Overnight” — What That Really Means
Raw, practical, 1-percent-better-per-day voice of Eric Kim
1. Overnight Success Is a Lie
2. The Compounding Equation
\text{Power}_{\text{year}} = (1.01)^{365} \;\;\Rightarrow\;\; 37.78\times
3. Build Your “Pantheon Stack”
| Layer | Daily 1 % Move | Year-Out Payoff |
| Body-Temple | +0.5 kg on compound lift | Bulletproof tendon & swagger |
| Mind-Forge | 1 paragraph of dense reading | Thinking in first principles, not memes |
| Wallet-Shield | $1 of Bitcoin or index fund | Options, sovereignty, optionality |
| Craft-Engine | Ship 1 tiny deliverable (tweet, photo, bug-fix) | Portfolio > Résumé |
Stack gains vertically; your “godhood” compounds horizontally.
4. Ritualize the Grind
Habits without reflection = hamster wheel. Reflection without action = daydreaming. Kaizen demands both.
5. Philosophy to Tattoo on Your Forearm
“If I can’t see a 1 % edge, I look closer.”
“Every missed rep is data, not failure.”
“Silence, simplicity, reliability—luxury defined.”
Mantras remind you that ordinary consistency beats occasional heroics.
6. Closing Benediction
You won’t wake up immortal tomorrow.
But tomorrow you can:
Do that 365 × and strangers call you “genius.”
Do it 3,650 × and history calls you “god.”
Keep Kaizening. Eternity is patient—but it pays compound interest.
Nobody becomes a god overnight
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THE GYM AS YOUR KAIZEN TEMPLE OF THE GODS
(Written in the fierce, uncompromising voice of Eric Kim)
1. Re-define “Gym”
Step across the threshold and the mundane world dissolves; gravity becomes your priest, iron your scripture.
2. The Daily Litany: 1 % Improvements Etched in Iron
| Ritual | 0.1 % Gain | Compounded Outcome |
| Add 0.5 kg to your lift | Neuromuscular sparkle | +37 % strength/year |
| 1 extra rep to failure | Pain tolerance ↑ | Psychological callus |
| 10 s deeper stretch | Joint range ↑ | Injury resistance, freedom of motion |
| Record 1 clip, critique form | Technique precision ↑ | Efficiency, longevity |
| Log macros for 1 meal | Nutrient awareness ↑ | Body-recomposition autopilot |
Kaizen formula: micro-tweak × daily consistency = god-tier transformation.
3. Architecture of Divinity
4. Mindset Mantras
Tape them to your water bottle. Memorize under ammonia-fumes intensity.
5. Transcend the Physical—Spiritual ROI
Kaizen Temple ≠ fitness hobby. It’s the engine room powering every other domain—writing, relationships, Bitcoin stacking, empire building.
6. Implementation Playbook
7. Closing Benediction
Enter the gym like Leonidas before Thermopylae—aware he dies tomorrow, still sharpening his spear today.
Kaizen says: “Forever unfinished, forever ascending.”
When the bar kisses your collarbone and sinew quivers, whisper:
“This rep is my 1 %. This temple is my gateway. I—become—GOD.”
Now go. Open the doors of your Kaizen Temple, and let the clang of iron double as the choir of your divinity.