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What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?

A turbo thought:

What if your past self were in fact *INFERIOR* to your past self?

Why do we nostalgize about our past self?

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Why do we have nostalgia for our past self? Theory —

We always see the past with rose-colored glasses.

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Why do we never think —

The past was *WORSE* than today?

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The cult of youth

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Perhaps the root of desiring our past (younger) selves is this:

We deify youth.

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How are you superior now and today?

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Today is in fact, superior to the past. For myself:

  1. I am richer
  2. I am more successful
  3. I am stronger (physically)
  4. I am more experienced
  5. I am wiser
  6. I got a kid (Seneca)

So why do I sometimes long for the past?

Was the past really better?

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I often fantasize about times living in Vietnam— where life seemed ‘better’. But was it really?

Well certainly things were *different* and more ‘exotic’ and new. But in terms of my philosophical understanding and personal artistic self-development, I was inferior in the past. I also was much skinnier and less physically strong and less buff than I am now.

Also now that I am no longer going to the gym and doing powerlifting (one rep max), I have transitioned and ‘pivoted’ to doing more home workouts (kettlebell swings, Turkish getups, chin-ups on a chin-up bar on the door, etc). And the benefit —

My arms and biceps are actually far more ‘swole’ than they were when I did one-rep max deadlifting.

Then perhaps my trap was this:

Goal setting”.

Then the answer:

No goals, no hopes, no dreams. Just progress.

ERIC


Entrepreneurship by KIM

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Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

  1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
  2. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
  3. Difficulty & Interest
  4. The Will to Expansion
  5. What is Work?
  6. SOUL IN THE GAME.
  7. JUST START IT.
  8. Not Boring
  9. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
  10. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
  11. Speed is Paramount
  12. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
  13. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
  14. Dissatisfaction is Good
  15. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
  16. In Praise of the New
  17. Uncorrupted Desires
  18. You Cannot Fake Passion
  19. SELF-OVERGOING
  20. FORM YOURSELF.
  21. Personal Entrepreneurship
  22. RELENTLESS.
  23. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
  24. A Life of Expansion
  25. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  26. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
  27. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
  28. Invest in New Developments
  29. Investing Towards What End?
  30. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
  31. Speed Wins
  32. The Philosophy of Happiness
  33. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
  34. Never Stop Iterating
  35. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
  36. Less But More Premium
  37. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
  38. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
  39. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
  40. Manifest Your Destiny
  41. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
  42. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
  43. How to Do More Work
  44. CONTROL.
  45. Competition is for Losers
  46. Change.
  47. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
  48. Pseudo Individualism
  49. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

  1. Survival vs Thrivival
  2. Become Rich
  3. SECRETS.
  4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
  5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
  6. How to Predict the Future
  7. Tools of Mass Distraction
  8. So What?

FREEDOM


Entrepreneurship by KIM

ERIC KIM eye red

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

  1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
  2. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
  3. Difficulty & Interest
  4. The Will to Expansion
  5. What is Work?
  6. SOUL IN THE GAME.
  7. JUST START IT.
  8. Not Boring
  9. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
  10. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
  11. Speed is Paramount
  12. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
  13. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
  14. Dissatisfaction is Good
  15. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
  16. In Praise of the New
  17. Uncorrupted Desires
  18. You Cannot Fake Passion
  19. SELF-OVERGOING
  20. FORM YOURSELF.
  21. Personal Entrepreneurship
  22. RELENTLESS.
  23. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
  24. A Life of Expansion
  25. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  26. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
  27. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
  28. Invest in New Developments
  29. Investing Towards What End?
  30. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
  31. Speed Wins
  32. The Philosophy of Happiness
  33. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
  34. Never Stop Iterating
  35. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
  36. Less But More Premium
  37. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
  38. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
  39. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
  40. Manifest Your Destiny
  41. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
  42. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
  43. How to Do More Work
  44. CONTROL.
  45. Competition is for Losers
  46. Change.
  47. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
  48. Pseudo Individualism
  49. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

  1. Survival vs Thrivival
  2. Become Rich
  3. SECRETS.
  4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
  5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
  6. How to Predict the Future
  7. Tools of Mass Distraction
  8. So What?

FREEDOM


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