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Motivation means to move. Motivate, similar to the word “motor” or “motus”. Children are “hyper-active”. But perhaps this is good. Let us become like children To move — we gotta feed our ego. My …
If you’re stuck at home (but can still order dumbbells or kettlebells on Amazon or online), or buy them at a local fitness store, this is a very simple workout you can do at …
Growth is key. How to grow our muscles? Some thoughts:
What is ‘respect‘? To look back at someone. ‘spek-‘, meaning to see, look, observe. Thus when we ‘respect’ someone — what does this really mean?
Emotion: What moves us [e-moveo]. Without emotion, we wouldn’t move!
During this chaos, I like to talk to real people.
When shit hits the fan, some thoughts.
The brave new world of CAPITALISM 2.0 is upon us.
Dear friends, Okay looks like zombie apocalypse mode is fully on. If you’re working from home, here are some ideas to become more productive:
THE GOAL AIN’T TO BECOME ANYONE ELSE BUT YOURSELF!
If you got a Mac, iPhone, iPad, whatever — make beats! Use Garageband. For Android guys, use “FL STUDIO”.
Write your book! Or put together a photo book of your best images (PDF). Download ‘iBooks Author’ for MacBook (laptop/desktop for Mac). Make a PDF e-book of your thoughts, best photos, your life story, …
When we call someone selfish, what we really are trying to say is: You are an evil person. Why this bias?
Whenever possible, stick to JPEG. Let me explain why:
You need a “real†camera to make good photos. iPhone and android phones are legitimate cameras. They’re essentially cameras with phones attached to them. You must shoot RAW. I shoot JPEG and prefer it. …
Dopamine Resistance — an interesting theory about addiction and cravings. Not just food, but smartphone/internet addiction, video game addiction, porn addiction, drug addiction, coffee addiction, news addiction, etc. Strategies: Intermittent fasting Avoid environmental cues …
Zen Brush 2 on iPad (and iPhone)— a new creative outlet for me. It is all about imputing my soul into my calligraphs.
Practical:
Physiology — dealing with growth, and natural organisms. Let me share my personal philosophy on physiology, and why I am so passionate about it.
When shit gets bad, don’t ask yourself: Why is it so bad? Instead ask yourself Why aren’t things WORSE?
If you wanna do video, I highly highly highly recommend (practically all) Panasonic/Lumix cameras.
The philosophy of falsification from Karl Popper: Science and knowledge can never ‘confirm’ something as truth/truthful, but can only FALSIFY things as being untrue. For example:
“To cure yourself of the news, spend a whole year spending last year’s news.” – Nassim Taleb Problem of the news: 99.9999% noise, very little (if any) signal.
But this is what allows you to become great!
When we blame others, we take free will away from ourselves?
We need difficulty, challenge, chaos, and tragedy in order to level up!
Dear friends, I know I personally get ‘stir crazy’ when stuck at home all day. I also get really bored. Some motivational stuff to conquer boredom when stuck at home:
Practical ideas:
Things which are good, but unnecessary. Protein powder and supplements are unnecessary I’ve built my physique with NO protein powder, NO supplements, no weird stuff. Only fatty meat, eggs, and bitter greens (kale, collard …
To me, it is all about information. If you got access to the right information, the right thoughts, and you have open and free access … then if you fail in life (you can …
What we are currently witnessing might be a sign of things to come. A new society. Society 2.0.
Ultimate contrast, focus on shapes and forms. Gives movement to our feet and inspires us! How I make abstract black and white images Procreate app and iPad. I use lasso tool, then create a …
I know personally I have a negative bias against fat and fatness in humans. Why is this? Some thoughts:
DON’T FORGET — you can still leave the house. But why?
When old industries are becoming destroyed, new ones are giving birth.
A thought: In life, consider what your desired outcome is, and work backwards. For example, you gotta ask yourself: What do I REALLY want? What do you really want from life, and how bad …
Practical assignments to get you shooting and moving! 😃👍
Street vlogging– a brave new world!
Motivation literally means ‘to move’. Thus photography motivation is this: How to inspire ourselves to MOVE MORE and SHOOT MORE? Practical thoughts:
“ALL PHOTOS ARE ACCURATE, NONE ARE TRUTH.” – Richard Avedon PHOTOS CAN NEVER TELL THE TRUTH:
Seek to Gain Muscle Mass and Lower Bodyfat. Over-Fat vs Over-Weight.
Movement is the source of all creative thought, joy, happiness, and life.
Go on a walk with your camera go to the gym and lift weights (deadlift, squat, bench). Powerlifting style. make beats in GarageBand write a blog post about something which interests you take a …
The holy grail: The ability to ADD MUSCLE and SUBTRACT FAT at the same time. I think I figured it out. Essentially intermittent fasting throughout the day [no breakfast, no lunch, only dinner], no …
Made with iPad and Procreate:
An interesting way to see composition– Think about bounding boxes around your subjects. This is effective for multiple subjects, layers, and more.
Seize your opportunity! With all this craziness, think: This is my chance and opportunity to seize it — and benefit from it! For example, let us say you gotta work from home. That is …
To become more prolific means to make and produce more:
My thought– Once you got a universal basic income [rent, food, water, wifi, coffee, electricity covered], and assuming you cannot travel [outside of your city], what should you do with your life? My thoughts:
READ WHAT AUGMENTS YOUR COURAGE. My list (in no particular order): The Iliad – Homer Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson Antifragile, Bed of Procrustes, Skin in the Game – Nassim Taleb The Will to …
If you’re stuck at home or indoors, here are some practical ideas to motivate yourself to make art [from the comfort of your own home]!: Make illustrations: Use ProCreate on iPad or iPhone to …
Turbo — turbine, disorder, to rotate, swirl. To turbocharge yourself: Harness that inner-chaos and inner-disorder of yourself in order to PROPEL YOURSELF HIGHER!
You got the power To go hard, hour after hour No need to be sour or salty You just gotta exalt thee You got the power, you got the strength To move mountains — …
If I had the option to going to Mars or another planet, I’d refuse. Why? I love earth and prefer it above any other planet.
Why are photos of eyes and eye contact so powerful? We have an intuition for eye-contact. Also, We like eye contact, or sometimes we fear it.
If you’re stuck indoors, some practical ideas on making art from home:
It seems Homo sapiens have been around for around 500,000 years (a long time). Assuming an average human lived to be 50, that means 10,000 generations of humans have undergone to get us to …
Becoming hyper-human means this: Become BEYOND yourself.
The thought that some races are genetically superior to others (or some races are genetically inferior) is racism. What we gotta be worried about in today’s world: Low-key racism. This is racism which isn’t …
Today’s world, we don’t really go into military service, nor do we become soldiers. Perhaps instead, we strive to become another noble profession — the artist.
What if we believed the soul was mortal— that once we died, our soul also died with us? Then what? How would we approach life differently and live life differently?
An essay on male masculinity amongst Asian men:
Envy is good, jealousy is bad. if you’re envious of someone else and their success and this stimulates and invigorates you to do more, envy is good. Jealousy is bad because we are intimidated …
The more you respect yourself, the more others will respect you as well. Also, why do you even care for the respect of others?
Who is your ideal follower? Better to get 1 like from Elon Musk, Kanye West, Mark Z than a million of random likes, or millions of random followers. STREAM YOUR RAW THOUGHTS!
Dear friends, Right now things are a bit shitty, but I wanted to use this chance to re-spark and re-motivate you.
Life isn’t about not being a sinner. It is just not being a sucker!