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Open Mind vs Closed Mind
I believe one of the greatest virtues is an open mind. One of the worst vices is a closed mind.
I believe one of the greatest virtues is an open mind. One of the worst vices is a closed mind.
Why are you so afraid to fail?
“I’ve been awaken from an enlightened man’s dream; checking Instagram comments to crowd-source my self-esteem” – Kanye
Instagram is slavery 2.0 for digital creators.
Trust yourself.
Always strive to make the simplest workflow possible:
Perhaps we should head towards a more modular future … less reliance on buying stuff. Instead, focus on BUILDING things. CREATING THINGS! Creating things from scratch. Don’t buy a Lambo; rather… start with a beater car and build it up!
Virtue is the goal.
In today’s brave new world, best to plan and do things as late as humanly possible, than to ‘plan’ and be ‘proactive’.
Skateboarding as a good means of self-expression, art, sport, and not doing ‘bad’ things.
What is a genius? He or she who has deep enthusiasm for whatever he or she likes to do, or wants to do, or cares for.
What is “valuable”? Something you make (digital or physical) which gives strength, hope, motivation, and vigor for someone else.
Enthusiasm means ‘a god dwelling within you’ [enthousiasmĂłs]. You cannot fake it. You cannot also fake passion nor true love.
A barbell future; embracing the extremes:
Simple ideas:
One of the best ways to succeed: Don’t censor yourself. Speak your mind and don’t water it down.
My #1 skill: blogging.
Combination of my interest in sociology, humans, and technology:
I am very grateful for my hard knock life. Without my hard knock life, I wouldn’t have become me.
We cannot control all the bad shit which has happened to us. Better to think: Perhaps what I have experienced, or what I am currently experiencing is actually a blessing in disguise.
A thought: If you are given certain advantages in life, you’re stupid to NOT take it. Let me explain:
I’m grateful for being raised Korean-American. Why? Hybrid is better.
When we call people or kids ‘privileged’, what we really mean to say is ‘rich, advantaged’ (or sometimes) “ungrateful, spoiled, brat”, etc. Why is this distinction important? Because true privilege means that the law doesn’t apply to you. That you are EXEMPT from the law. For example, if I kill someone but I am rich…
My approach to intermittent fasting:
In praise of skepticism and suspicion:
Avoid the mainstream. Go “offstream”— make your own stream!
If you live in America, you’re American. Period. It doesn’t matter if you were born here, immigrated here, or somehow ended up here. You’re American. If you’ve spent any time living in America, perhaps for at least 10 years, you’re American.
We talk about a non-gender binary. Shouldn’t we also apply the same line of thinking to race?
Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Kanye West, etc — they are all great. Why? Not for their money or entrepreneurial successes, but their aberrant thinking. Their ability to think different.
Do you remember Google+? Flickr? Tumblr? Livejournal? Xanga? Facebook? Moral of the story: All external platforms will either eventually die or screw you over in one way or another. Thus the goal: OWN YOUR OWN PLATFORM!
I don’t think Google is evil. The more nuanced view: Google is low-key sneaky. My thoughts:
The more ghetto, the better! A combination of ‘creative constraints’ and approaching a ‘MacGyver’ approach to life:
My thought: It is totally fine that we are anti-meat from a moral, ethical, or an environmental perspective. However … if we are hard, scientific and empirical … we should NOT assert “definitively” that high consumption of red meats is “bad” for oneself. My thoughts:
More important than what you eat is what you decide NOT to eat. A ‘via negativa’ approach to health. My thoughts:
The rationale and logic behind flexing:
What I eat, how I eat, and when I eat:
A new thought: Perhaps better to adopt a ‘ghetto’ lifestyle than to strive to adopt for an Uber-fancy lifestyle. My thoughts:
Fundamental concepts of photography entrepreneurship:
Pragmatic thoughts on loving your body:
Greatness exists, perfection doesn’t.
I feel this is an inconvenient truth that nobody really likes to think or believe: The fact is this — 90% of your success as an entrepreneur, photographer, etc is based on your marketing prowess, and 10% is based on your “skill” (how good you are as an artist and photographer).
What is ‘bias‘? Bias means ‘slant’ (oblique). This means: Everyone’s opinion will ALWAYS have a slant, no matter what. Or in other words: Philosophically, all humans, corporations, institutions, governments, etc will ALWAYS have a bias. Thus the question: Should we as a society ‘allow’ bias, or how should we approach or attack it? So my…
A large step towards (good) progressive thoughts: Nuance. What is nuance? Some thoughts:
One of the greatest philosophical tools in our philosophical toolkit: The philosophical framework of ‘falsification’ Or in other words: Knowing that science can only FALSIFY things (mark things as UN-TRUE) than to “prove” anything to be positively “true”.
My road to fame:
If you’re thinking about photography entrepreneurship ideas, you’re already a photography entrepreneur. Some basic ideas:
Let us adopt the Steve Jobs notion of the ‘reality distortion field’. You can distort and mould reality to your wishes. Don’t be the slave of reality; become the master.
Some ways in which working out at the park is actually better and superior to working out at the gym:
In praise of symmetry and congruency in human affairs: