ERIC KIM

Intellectual Courage

What is the best type of courage you can exhibit in today’s less martial world?

The courage of your opinion, your thoughts, and your intellect.

This means:

  1. Having the courage to share your own opinion without quoting anyone else, or without self-censorship.
  2. Having the courage to publish your own ideas and be responsible for your own words (skin in the game).
  3. Having the courage to CHANGE and modify your opinion as your life goes on.
  4. Having the courage to own your own platform (your own website/blog) to share your thoughts (in order to not get censored),

A singular monster of courage.

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To have extreme courage to share your thoughts and opinion. Ain’t no right or wrong; there is simply genuine or in-genuine thoughts (pertaining to you).

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A singular man of courage.

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What is the best? For you to rely on yourself. Extreme self-reliance. Extreme self-love and extreme self-acceptance. To not desire to become anyone else. To not see any of your attributes or personality traits as ‘good’ or ‘bad’/evil. No. It is all good.

Your thoughts are irrefutable.

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To have an opinion. It means just “what you think”.

You think certain things… but can your thoughts be right or wrong?

Of course there are factually incorrect things which pertain to math and physics. However with morality, ethics, philosophy, art and aesthetics … there ain’t no right or wrong.

What do you really want from life?

You are intelligent

Ain’t no truth behind an IQ test. Anyone who believes in IQ-tests are either nerds (who are good at IQ tests), low-key racists (eugenics folks who want to “prove scientifically” with the pseudo-scientific IQ-numbers that certain races are “superior” to others).

What are “true” markers of intelligence anyways?

Generally, we like to think of “objective” measures of intelligence such as mathematical ability, scientific thinking, abstract thought, logic, etc. But are these the supreme values of intelligence? No.

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Courage is everything.

You can have all the mathematical and scientific knowledge in the world without even a single ounce of courage. My theory:

A lot of scientists, mathematicians, etc are just nerds who were bullied a lot as kids, and wanted to get “revenge” by getting so super-hyper smart at school, which is ‘irrefutable’.

Who runs the world?

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Who runs the world? My thought:

America is currently on top, then tailed by China, then everyone else.

Why is America on top? Military. Technology.

Why is China second? Man-power. Production.

Individuals, states, or institutions?

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