I don’t believe in an ultimate purpose in life, but I can certainly say that embarking on more photo adventures makes life so much more fun, interesting, exciting, and worth it!
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You don’t gotta go far

Just drive somewhere an hour away. See the water. Go hiking. Go to a new part of town, or a new town. Visit a new coffee shop or restaurant, and bring your camera along!

Why adventure?
I believe there is something inside human nature to love adventure. We need our skills to be exercised. Danger, uncertainty and fear is often a focusing and concentrating agent which brings out the best in us.

Artistic adventures
What I love about photography:
You are dealing with reality.
You cannot go and make photos in some theoretical ground. You must be like the giant Antaeus and be connected to the ground to have your power.
Photography over video games
Ryan Haliday says in the film ‘Ready Player One’:
In virtual reality it is hard to get a decent meal.
I think video games are fun and all, but ultimately, reality is (and should) be 100000x more interesting, fun, and exciting! If there is anything I learned from fucking around with VR it is this:
Virtual reality helps us appreciate embodied reality even more.
Why are we afraid of reality?
My thought:
Living and facing reality takes much courage, strength, power, and stamina.
Much easier to live a passive life where we are being ‘active’ playing video games (while sitting on our butt), or while watching TV shows or movies of others being active.
I think Nassim Taleb has it right in ‘Skin in the Game’:
Reality is far more risky and fun and interesting than any simulated reality, and that is what makes it grand and worthwhile.
Do you love embodied reality?
One of the things I love most about powerlifting is this:
You are directly dealing with physics, reality, gravity, and other embodied forces.
I read a lot of books and deal with a lot of things in the mind, but ultimately, reality and physics will always triumph over the abstract, theoretical, metaphysical, and intangible.
What is the best life?
The best life:
Maximal chaos, maximal uncertainly, maximal opportunity for you to flex your skills, strength and courage, and to push yourself to new limits, new heights, and to breathe new air.
ERIC
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- Anti-Nihilism
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- Thrivival 101
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- Non-Small
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- Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
- Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
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- Try the Impossible
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- Simpler, Not Better.
- How to be Free
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- COURAGE.
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- Why Change is Good
- Why Work?
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- You Always Have Another Option!
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- Never Stop!
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- Live Life to the Fullest!
- In Praise of Selfishness
- Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
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- Simple Luxuries in Life
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- Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
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- In Praise of a Dynamic Life
- PURPOSE.
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- Take Your Play Very Seriously.
- How to Prosper
- Memento Vivere
- Destroy in Order to CREATE
- Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
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