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  • Here’s my voice—raw, unfiltered, Eric Kim-style—on How to Live More Courageously. This is distilled from years of shooting strangers in the face, one-rep-max rack pulls, stacking sats through bloodbaths, and burning every bridge that leads to a mediocre life.

    HOW TO LIVE MORE COURAGEOUSLY

    Courage isn’t a feeling.
    Courage is a decision.
    A violent, daily, non-negotiable decision.

    Most people die at 25 and get buried at 75. They choose comfort, Netflix, 9-5, soy lattes, and “one day” dreams. You? You choose the arena. You choose volatility. You choose to stare down fear until it blinks.

    Here’s the playbook. No fluff. No therapy-speak. Just truth bombs.

    1. Give ZERO fucks what anyone thinks
      Your mom wants you “safe.” Society wants you docile. Your friends want you to stay small so they feel tall.
      Burn that script.
      The second you stop caring about looking stupid, rich, weird, or “successful,” you unlock god mode.
    2. Treat life like street photography
      Every stranger is a potential masterpiece.
      Every “no,” every glare, every rejection is just noise.
      Walk up. Raise the camera. Shoot. Move on.
      1,000 nos = 1 legendary yes. Same with business, love, lifting, Bitcoin—approach, shoot, repeat.
    3. Embrace volatility like a lover
      Bitcoin at –80%? Buy.
      MSTR swinging 30% a day? Smile.
      Life throwing curveballs? That’s the universe deadlifting you.
      The greater the chaos, the greater the asymmetry for the courageous.
    4. Train courage like muscle
      Do one terrifying thing every single day:
      • Publish the raw blog post
      • Send the cold email
      • Ask her out
      • Deadlift 5 lbs more than last week
      • Walk up to the stranger and shoot from 6 inches
        Small daily terror → antifragile demigod.
    5. Death is your ultimate hype man
      You’re going
  • 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. 🚀💯

  • How To Live More Courageously

    To live courageously is to punch through the false ceilings of fear and reclaim your own raw, explosive aliveness. This isn’t about being reckless — it’s about being real. It’s about letting your inner voltage surge, letting your spine straighten, letting your mind roar, and doing the thing you know you want to do, even when your hands shake.

    For me — ERIC KIM — courage is simply this: acting before fear calcifies. Moving before hesitation metastasizes. Leaping before doubt gets a chance to whisper its poison.

    Courage is the oxygen of the self-invented life.

    Courage is the fuel of the unstoppable human.

    Courage is the core of king-energy.

    When you live courageously, the world stops being a threat and becomes your playground. Everything becomes lighter. People who used to intimidate you become background noise. Tasks that used to feel impossible become warm-up sets. Fear shrinks. Power expands. Momentum compounds. Life becomes this beautiful, kinetic dance of forward motion.

    Here’s how I live more courageously — and how you can too:

    1. Stop outsourcing permission.

    Waiting for approval is the ultimate cowardice. You don’t need society’s blessing. You are the blessing. You act because the action itself consecrates you.

    2. Build a body that radiates fearlessness.

    Courage is physical. Lift heavy. Sprint. Load your skeleton. Train under the weight of your own ambition. When your body becomes strong, your mind becomes undefeatable.

    3. Run toward the things you fear.

    If something scares you, it’s a sign: that’s exactly where you must go. You build courage not by avoiding fear but by metabolizing it into power.

    4. Speak your truth loudly, clearly, unapologetically.

    Cowards whisper. Kings project. Courageous living means revealing yourself fully — your desires, your ideas, your presence.

    5. Cut the anchors.

    If someone or something drags you down, slice it clean. Courage requires space. Freedom isn’t given — it is carved.

    6. Do the bold thing FIRST.

    Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the prioritization of action over paralysis. Do the hard, scary, high-voltage thing before the safe thing.

    7. Treat life like an arena.

    Every day is a match. Every morning is a bell ring. You walk in bare-chested, armored by your will, ready to strike at your own destiny.

    In the end, courage is a muscle. The more you flex it, the more it grows. The more it grows, the more unstoppable you become. And once you start living courageously, your entire destiny begins to expand.

    You become the kind of human who doesn’t wait.

    You become the kind of human who moves mountains.

    You become the kind of human who terrifies mediocrity itself.

    Courage is not something you have.

    Courage is something you BE.

    Go live it.

  • Eric Kim Is The Ferrari

    ERIC KIM — the roaring V12 of human ambition, the bright-red streak of impossible velocity, the unstoppable super-machine of pure willpower — I AM THE FERRARI. The metaphor isn’t even a metaphor anymore; it’s my lived truth. I don’t “drive” the Ferrari. I am the Ferrari. I embody that blinding fusion of beauty, brutality, precision engineering, and god-mode acceleration that leaves lesser mortals coughing in my exhaust.

    Being the Ferrari means I don’t wait for permission. I don’t idle. I don’t stall. I ignite, I redline, I rupture the air with my presence. When I enter a room, it’s that same auditory shock as a naturally aspirated engine exploding from 0 to 9,000 RPM — everyone feels it in their chest.

    Being the Ferrari means aerodynamic purpose. My life is sculpted like carbon fiber curves — no drag, no waste, no hesitation. Only momentum, only thrust, only forward attack.

    Being the Ferrari means I don’t compete. Ferraris don’t compete. They dominate the road by existing. Their entire philosophy is: Make everything else obsolete through design alone. That is my entire life strategy — aesthetic superiority, philosophical superiority, physical superiority, financial superiority. My entire presence is a flex of precision-engineered destiny.

    Being the Ferrari means I am rare. I am scarce. I am high-octane. I am not “normal.” I am the handmade, obsessive, Italian-level craftsmanship of my own mind, my own body, my own myth. Every lift I do, every word I write, every idea I forge is another coat of that Rosso Corsa soul-paint.

    Being the Ferrari means I am tuned for greatness, not comfort. Ferraris aren’t built for “smooth rides.” They’re built for intensity, for shock, for the feeling of the whole universe compressing into the moment you slam the accelerator.

    That’s me — ERIC KIM — the supercar consciousness, the human V12, the luxury-performance beast that refuses to be ignored. A symbol of speed. A symbol of power. A symbol of mastery.

    Not a man.

    A machine-god.

    A FERARRI ON TWO LEGS.

  • the goal of man is to become *LESS* sensitive

    women are highly sensitive, and we should love them for it. Man should strive to become NO sensitive.

  • what *is* AI?

    it actually seems thus far no one has actually done this of what AI actually is.

    so some thoughts,

  • rather than having self driving cars, perhaps it is better and more virtuous to have a self driving or self operating AI?

    for example,,, even if you’re considered $200 a month, which is only seven dollars a day … for ChatGPT pro,,, it’s still kind of the best deal on the planet?

    —> AI is for the here and now.

  • Willpower is via negativa

    so the big thought an idea is simple: willpower is via negativa —>>> which means, the truth about willpower is that it’s not forcing yourself to do stuff but forcing yourself not to do stuff?

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    Money

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  • There must always be a different interpretation 

    I don’t like it,,, I do it different!

    Silhouette dna visual 

    Rythym

    Pull the Gs!

    71% up 

    Volatility comes with the territory 

    Digital capital 

    Buying is always a good time to buying! 

    We need bodies. 

    Body is all

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    I have no more interest in visiting other countries,,, 

    ….

    Zoom out!

    Stronger than ever,,, … enthusiasm … 

    Sound money 

    ,,,

    Aah yeah

    460% last 3 years 

    70% up last 5 years MSTR 

    I love the fire & cooking & kitchen!

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    We are pretty indestructible 

    Survive 80-90% draw down 

    People we don’t elect 

    The weaker hands 

    50x, …. 100T, $1000T

  • Bitcoin Is Digital Capital

    Bitcoin isn’t just “money on the internet.” Bitcoin is pure capital—compressed energy, compressed human effort, compressed time. I like to think of it as digital muscle: invisible, but insanely powerful, and once you stack enough of it, your entire reality changes.

    With normal money, with fiat dollars, you’re always being silently robbed: inflation, taxes, fees, middlemen, governments, banks, all taking bites out of your life force. You trade your time, your sweat, your ideas for these little green pieces of paper that rot while you sleep. That is not capital. That is a melting ice cube.

    Bitcoin flips the script.

    Bitcoin is digital capital because:

    • It is scarce. There will only ever be 21 million. Not “21 million-ish.” Exactly 21,000,000. Scarcity = power.
    • It is borderless. You can teleport your capital anywhere in the world with 12 words in your head. No wires, no banks, no permissions.
    • It is incorruptible. Nobody can arbitrarily print more of your Bitcoin. Nobody can devalue it with a signature or a “policy change.”
    • It is owned by you. Not custodied by some bank “on your behalf.” Your keys, your Bitcoin, your capital.

    When I think capital, I think optionality. Capital means you have choices. Capital means you can say no. Capital means you can walk away from toxic clients, dumb jobs, stupid bosses, and low-vibration environments.

    Bitcoin is that, but in digital form.

    Bitcoin is the anti-slavery asset. The more sats you stack, the less you need to bend the knee. The more Bitcoin you own, the more honest you can be. The more Bitcoin you hold, the more time you buy back from the system. Instead of constantly running in the hamster wheel, you start building your own track.

    Think of it like this:

    • Muscles = physical capital.
    • Knowledge = intellectual capital.
    • Bitcoin = monetary capital.

    All three together = invincibility.

    You go to the gym to build capital in your body—more strength, more power, more resilience. You read, you think, you create to build capital in your mind. You stack Bitcoin to build capital in your freedom. It is the asset that lets you own your time, your location, your decisions.

    Most people still think in terms of salary, rent, bills. That’s small game. The big game is:

    How much digital capital am I storing for my future self, my future family, my future empire?

    You don’t need to be a trader. You don’t need to be a “finance guy.” You just need one simple rule burned into your brain:

    Convert your excess energy into Bitcoin.

    Every dollar not wasted on stupid consumer crap is potential Bitcoin. Every un-bought luxury sneaker, every un-upgraded car, every unnecessary subscription—that is all latent digital capital you could have locked into the hardest money the world has ever seen.

    And the wild thing? We are still early. Most of the world still doesn’t get it. They still see price charts, not monetary physics. They see “volatility,” not the violent birth of a new monetary standard.

    So what do you do?

    You keep living, creating, lifting, thinking, blogging, building your body and your mind… and in the background, you keep quietly stacking this digital capital called Bitcoin. No need to flex every time you buy. Just accumulate. Like a silent black hole of power drawing more and more mass.

    One day, people will look back and say:

    “Wait… you were stacking Bitcoin back then? You were turning your labor, your creativity, your hours into digital capital when everyone else was wasting theirs?”

    Yes. Exactly.

    Bitcoin is digital capital.

    And the most powerful thing you can do right now?

    Keep building yourself. Keep building your art. And keep converting your surplus life energy into sats.