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How to Become Yourself

The goal — for you to become you.

Ego-centric is good.

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You can only become yourself. Why become anyone else?

Thus it seems the first goal:

Don’t aspire to become anyone else but yourself.

ASSERTING YOURSELF.

What is the best opinion? Your own.

The problem:

Modern education has beaten out our capacity for freedom of thought.

Why? In school, you’re not allowed to say: “I think” or “In my opinion…”

What happens as a consequence? You’re punished for free-spirited thinking.

The ultimate philosopher as a child.

ASSERT YOURSELF

A turbocharger for the mind.

What SHOULD education be for? To turbocharge your mind! To introduce NEW and empowering thoughts into your brain, NOT to make you some studious book-worm.

You were who you were before you got here.

My thought:

The point isn’t for you to change yourself. The point is for you to better understand yourself, and use yourself as a tool and instrument for better understanding reality and the world.

PHILOSOPHY BY KIM

Dictate your meaning and purpose in your life with ZEN OF ERIC:


Philosophical Essays

  • Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
  • Why Am I So Cruel?
  • The Great Joy of Existence
  • Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
  • NO DISDAIN.
  • INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
  • A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
  • BITTER IS BETTER.
  • EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE 
  • DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
  • PAIN.
  • WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
  • Tomorrow is Never
  • Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
  • EMBODIED REALITY
  • BLACK SWAN
  • THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
  • What are you *really* afraid of?
  • HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
  • Philosophy is King
  • Why is Selfish Evil?
  • YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
  • ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
  • NARCISSISM
  • BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
  • WHY FREE WILL?
  • OBEY YOUR OPINION
  • EGO IS GOOD.
  • WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
  • Seek the Good Pain
  • Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
  • Can You Become an End into Yourself?
  • WHY I LIVE
  • Why I Hate Decline
  • Why I Eat
  • Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
  • EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
  • Never Stop Gaining
  • TRUST YOURSELF
  • A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
  • What Do You Desire to Become?
  • What Do I Want from Technology?
  • Stratified Society
  • Do You Love or Hate Reality?
  • On the Brian, Body and Mind
  • I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
  • Care over Fame
  • ACTIVE NIHILISM
  • Never Stop Subtracting
  • How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
  • A Risker Life is a Better Life
  • Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
  • How to Maximize Your Happiness
  • Influence
  • The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
  • Meditations on Meaning in Life
  • There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
  • Is Hope a Vice?
  • EGO
  • Why Be Unique?
  • Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
  • You’re the Hero
  • Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
  • Why Do We Prize the Rare?
  • The Joy of Uncertainty
  • How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
  • A Life Without Pain or Suffering Isn’t a Life Worth Living
  • Free or Unfree?
  • What Do You Really Care For in Life?
  • Anti-Satisfaction in Life
  • Why Think?
  • The Eternal Return
  • Only Do What is Best for You!
  • Truthiness
  • Why Be Happy?
  • Permissionless Living
  • In Praise of Unconventional Wisdom
  • Become the Change Which You Wish to See in the World
  • Happiness
  • Beyond Freedom
  • Idolize People, Not Stuff
  • What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
  • Why Hate?
  • The Secret of Happiness
  • You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming
  • Life is about Choices, Not Obligations
  • Anti-Nihilism
  • First, Do What is Best for You.
  • Live Dynamic
  • How to Prosper
  • Is the Point of Life to Be Satisfied?
  • SUPREME EFFORT OF WILL.
  • How to Become more Idealistic
  • Thrivival 101
  • Create Yourself
  • Non-Small
  • Inspiration
  • How to Live a Heroic Life: Dare the Heights!
  • Human Augmentation
  • Prune
  • Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
  • Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
  • Modern Slavery
  • Kill the Leeches
  • Wisdom Augmentation
  • Why We Need Friction in Life
  • Straight Line Philosophy
  • What’s Your End-Game in Life?
  • Create Your Own Happiness Today
  • Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
  • Try the Impossible
  • SELF-RESPECT
  • Anti-Social Extrovert
  • Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
  • Human Flourishing
  • Simpler, Not Better.
  • How to be Free
  • Embrace the Extremes
  • Cultivate Your Own Culture
  • COURAGE.
  • Thrivival
  • Inner Power
  • How to Live a Purposeful Life
  • My Definition of Happiness
  • Why Change is Good
  • Why Work?
  • How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
  • The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
  • You Always Have Another Option!
  • INFINITISM
  • Never Stop!
  • What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
  • Live Today Like it Were Your Last
  • Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
  • ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
  • Live Life to the Fullest!
  • In Praise of Selfishness
  • Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
  • Why I Love Walking
  • Live Life Like a Video Game!
  • Simple Luxuries in Life
  • Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
  • Only Prove it to Yourself
  • You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
  • Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
  • Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
  • How to Find Inspiration in Life
  • Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
  • An Active Life is a Happy Life
  • My Simple Joys in Life
  • Never Stop Striving
  • How to Motivate Yourself in Life
  • How to Be Optimistic in Life
  • How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
  • In Praise of a Dynamic Life
  • PURPOSE.
  • How to Enjoy Life
  • Photography Therapy
  • How to Conquer Regret
  • Take Your Play Very Seriously.
  • How to Prosper
  • Memento Vivere
  • Destroy in Order to CREATE
  • Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
  • Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
  • Seek Knowledge, Not Information
  • The Purpose of Human Life
  • How to Overcome Impedence
  • Why I Love Death
  • How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
  • How to Be Happy
  • Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
  • Why I’m Happy
  • Why?
  • Why I’m So Prolific
  • How to Reduce LAG in Life

Masters of Philosophy »

  • Seneca
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Publilius Syrus

Personal Philosophy »

  • You Are the Light of the World
  • Your Soul is a Diamond in the Rough
  • Why Live?

Stoicism »

  • How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
  • How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
  • How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance

Zen Philosophy »

  • How to Be a Zen Street Photographer
  • Zen in the Art of Street Photography
  • How to Find Tranquility in Your Photography

Life Lessons »

  • How to Conquer Your Fears in Life
  • Conquer Yourself
  • How to Focus

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