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If You Know Your *WHY* You Can Discover Any *HOW*

WHY APP? The motivation:

From Nietzsche — if a man knows his ‘wherefore?’ he can discover any ‘how?’

The ‘Why’ question is innate to every child and is the root of philosophy

We want progress in life. Why?

We want more money, wealth, power, influence, and control. But why?

We want to be happy in life. Why?

eric kim crimson red why be different

Life is aspirational for more.

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To aspire for more, this is life.

Why? Life is about growth.

For example, when I went to Joshua Tree, looking at all these trees in the desert:

In spite of the fact that there is almost no water … they are all reaching towards the sky , to grow taller, more dominant … and to live!

Figure out your life mission, and concerns on money, making a living, etc will take care of itself.

Making a living is easy. Making a killing is hard.

Thus, just seek your ‘bread and art’ (as long as you have enough food to feed yourself, and you can create your art), you are good!

ERIC KIM


PHILOSOPHY by KIM

Philosophical Essays

  1. Life is Too Short to Be Miserable
  2. What Consumption Takes Skill?
  3. OFF THE GRID.
  4. REALITY IS CRUEL.
  5. Pain is Information
  6. WHY REMOVE VULGARITY AND DISORDER FROM OUR EYES?
  7. AUTOTELIC.
  8. UNPLUG.
  9. How to Become a Philosopher
  10. SUBOPTIMAL IS OPTIMAL
  11. THE LUST FOR MORE.
  12. TO DO IS TO BECOME.
  13. IN PRAISE OF AGGRESSIVE.
  14. THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM
  15. OUR PHILOSOPHICAL WILL TO EXISTENCE
  16. Is Hope a Vice?
  17. MOVE MEAN
  18. Carte Blanche Ideals
  19. One Interesting Thought
  20. What Lasts? What Doesn’t Last?
  21. A WOUND STIMULATES THE RECUPERATIVE POWERS
  22. Children & Purpose
  23. Thoughts on Becoming a Parent
  24. Where Does Our Desire to Upgrade Come From?
  25. WE ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING FURTHER TO ASPIRE TO.
  26. Self-Task Yourself an Awesome Mission in Life
  27. Differentiation vs Equalization
  28. My Passion to *Become* Something More
  29. No Aesthetic or Ethos is Forever
  30. What is Your Higher Purpose in Life?
  31. IT WILL NEVER SATISFY YOU.
  32. How to Decide
  33. Things You *Want* to Do vs Things You *MUST* Do
  34. Towards a More Beautiful Mode of Existence and Future
  35. EXTREME GRATITUDE.
  36. AMAP (As Much as Possible) or None.
  37. Why or How Does it Matter?
  38. The Philosophy of Time and Events
  39. How *Not* to Resent
  40. FORWARD LOOKING
  41. DOMAIN FLEXIBILITY.
  42. The Miracle of Human Growth
  43. EXTREME ADAPTATION.
  44. Why Plan?
  45. You Don’t Need to Justify Yourself
  46. The Philosophy of Ego
  47. True vs False Passions
  48. How to Achieve Tranquility
  49. On Making Your Own Philosophy
  50. The Purpose of Life is to Create New Life
  51. Think On!
  52. The Wisdom of Doing Nothing
  53. Congruency
  54. My Thoughts on Meditation
  55. The Philosophy of Purpose
  56. Emulate Yourself
  57. Good Fear, Bad Fear
  58. For the Betterment of Humanity or Just Yourself?
  59. What you *really* believe in and care for is manifested through your actions (or non-actions)
  60. Why Culture is Your Enemy
  61. YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE KING.
  62. LIFE IS INHERENTLY GOOD.
  63. Artistic, Physical, and Philosophical Muscles
  64. All New Experiences are Good Experiences
  65. What is the Purpose of X?
  66. UTILITY.
  67. Philosophy is a Luxury
  68. The Attempt is More Interesting than the Result
  69. Joyfulness vs “Happiness”
  70. Effectiveness Over Happiness
  71. Self Actualization
  72. MAXIMAL ENGAGEMENT
  73. Life & Pain
  74. On Living Every Day with No Regret
  75. Learn as if you’re going to live forever, live as if you’re going to die tomorrow
  76. Live Every Day Like it Were the Last Day of Your Life
  77. Self-Determination
  78. FALSE GRATITUDE vs REAL GRATITUDE
  79. HOW TO LIVE MORE
  80. THE UPSIDE OF TRAGEDY
  81. Satisfaction is a Sucker’s Game
  82. Supreme Repose
  83. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? According to ERIC KIM
  84. STUBBORN, FLEXIBLE
  85. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD* HAVE HAD HAPPENED
  86. Good Addiction, Bad Addiction?
  87. What is the Best Life?
  88. The Philosophy of Thinking
  89. The Philosophy of Conspiracies
  90. Conspiracies
  91. Growth
  92. Skepticism.
  93. What Do You Really Want Out of Life?
  94. Seem or Be?
  95. Learn Through Pain
  96. Respect Yourself
  97. In Praise of Elitism
  98. Why Independent Thinking?
  99. I Will Never Die
  100. Bitter is Better
  101. The Genesis of Nihilism and Existential Dread
  102. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
  103. Good vs Not Good
  104. Punished by Privilege
  105. Abstinence Over Moderation
  106. Just Leave Others Alone
  107. You Can Only Critique that Which You Truly Understand and Love
  108. ERIC KIM Critique of Metaphysics
  109. Only Trust Philosophers Who Deadlift
  110. Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back
  111. Virtue is a Privilege
  112. What Are Your Life Goals?
  113. Honesty
  114. Why I’m Anti Moderation
  115. No Spite, No Malice.
  116. Ascending Life or Descending Life?
  117. Double Edged Sword
  118. Ignorance.
  119. Why I Don’t Trust “Nice Guys”
  120. Why You Must Share Your Opinion
  121. Selfish Isn’t Evil
  122. Wisdom is the Goal
  123. YOU ARE KING.
  124. MASTER YOURSELF
  125. What is “Good” for You is Often what is Bad for You
  126. Care.
  127. BITTERSWEET
  128. ONE REP MAX
  129. Morality and Ethics is the Snare
  130. BY HELPING YOURSELF, YOU BEST HELP OTHERS
  131. Insanity is Good.
  132. Think Deep.
  133. PHILOSOPHY IS THE FUTURE.
  134. Open Mind vs Closed Mind
  135. ENTHUSIASM IS GENIUS
  136. Towards a More Critical and Rigorous Line of Thinking
  137. How to Encourage and a Foster Independent and Free Thinking
  138. What is the Purpose of Life?
  139. WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SUPREME.
  140. Elitism.
  141. I Cannot Form an Opinion About Somebody Until I’ve Met Them in the Flesh
  142. ALL GENETICS ARE GOOD GENETICS.
  143. Happiness vs Freedom
  144. The Birth of a Hater
  145. My Way Isn’t the Right Way
  146. Walking as an Existential Thing
  147. Why I’m So Tolerant
  148. Mortal Gods
  149. THE HUMAN SPECIES
  150. Why I’m So Skeptical
  151. Just Follow the Money
  152. Why Selfish?
  153. WHY WE CANNOT BLAME OTHERS
  154. Why Are We So Anti Elitism?
  155. What Actually Interests You?
  156. How to Become Yourself
  157. SELF HATE
  158. Optimistic Fatalism
  159. Death is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
  160. FLUX.
  161. How to Think for Yourself
  162. FLESH
  163. How to Live the Best Life
  164. Why Live a Life Without Regrets?
  165. Why Plato Ruined Art and Aesthetics for Us
  166. Self Respect
  167. Hypocrite vs Contradict
  168. Ideals vs Reality
  169. Spaceship Philosophy
  170. What is Your Ideal Life?
  171. MY EXTREME GRATITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND BEING ALIVE!
  172. Critique of Utilitarianism
  173. Don’t Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
  174. The Eternal Recurrence of Tragedy and Joy in Life
  175. Elite Asceticism
  176. Why I Don’t Like Numbers
  177. Action and Reaction, Cause and Effect
  178. The Antidote to Nihilism: The Philosophy of Nothingness
  179. ERIC KIM Notes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  180. EXPLOIT CHAOS.
  181. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS
  182. Self-Wisdom
  183. The Future Belongs to the Fearless
  184. INDIVIDUALISM
  185. Why Live Forever?
  186. THIS TOO WILL PASS.
  187. Why Education?
  188. How to Become Yourself
  189. Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
  190. Why Am I So Cruel?
  191. The Great Joy of Existence
  192. Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
  193. NO DISDAIN.
  194. INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
  195. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
  196. BITTER IS BETTER.
  197. EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE 
  198. DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
  199. PAIN.
  200. WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
  201. Tomorrow is Never
  202. Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
  203. EMBODIED REALITY
  204. BLACK SWAN
  205. THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
  206. What are you *really* afraid of?
  207. HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
  208. Philosophy is King
  209. Why is Selfish Evil?
  210. YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
  211. ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
  212. NARCISSISM
  213. BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
  214. WHY FREE WILL?
  215. OBEY YOUR OPINION
  216. EGO IS GOOD.
  217. WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
  218. Seek the Good Pain
  219. Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
  220. Can You Become an End into Yourself?
  221. WHY I LIVE
  222. Why I Hate Decline
  223. Why I Eat
  224. Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
  225. EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
  226. Never Stop Gaining
  227. TRUST YOURSELF
  228. A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
  229. What Do You Desire to Become?
  230. What Do I Want from Technology?
  231. Stratified Society
  232. Do You Love or Hate Reality?
  233. On the Brian, Body and Mind
  234. I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
  235. Care over Fame
  236. ACTIVE NIHILISM
  237. Never Stop Subtracting
  238. How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
  239. A Risker Life is a Better Life
  240. Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
  241. How to Maximize Your Happiness
  242. Influence
  243. The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
  244. Meditations on Meaning in Life
  245. There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
  246. Is Hope a Vice?
  247. EGO
  248. Why Be Unique?
  249. Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
  250. You’re the Hero
  251. Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
  252. Why Do We Prize the Rare?
  253. The Joy of Uncertainty
  254. How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
  255. A Life Without Pain or Suffering Isn’t a Life Worth Living
  256. Free or Unfree?
  257. What Do You Really Care For in Life?
  258. Anti-Satisfaction in Life
  259. Why Think?
  260. The Eternal Return
  261. Only Do What is Best for You!
  262. Truthiness
  263. Why Be Happy?
  264. Permissionless Living
  265. In Praise of Unconventional Wisdom
  266. Become the Change Which You Wish to See in the World
  267. Happiness
  268. Beyond Freedom
  269. Idolize People, Not Stuff
  270. What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
  271. Why Hate?
  272. The Secret of Happiness
  273. You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming
  274. Life is about Choices, Not Obligations
  275. Anti-Nihilism
  276. First, Do What is Best for You.
  277. Live Dynamic
  278. How to Prosper
  279. Is the Point of Life to Be Satisfied?
  280. SUPREME EFFORT OF WILL.
  281. How to Become more Idealistic
  282. Thrivival 101
  283. Create Yourself
  284. Non-Small
  285. Inspiration
  286. How to Live a Heroic Life: Dare the Heights!
  287. Human Augmentation
  288. Prune
  289. Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
  290. Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
  291. Modern Slavery
  292. Kill the Leeches
  293. Wisdom Augmentation
  294. Why We Need Friction in Life
  295. Straight Line Philosophy
  296. What’s Your End-Game in Life?
  297. Create Your Own Happiness Today
  298. Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
  299. Try the Impossible
  300. SELF-RESPECT
  301. Anti-Social Extrovert
  302. Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
  303. Human Flourishing
  304. Simpler, Not Better.
  305. How to be Free
  306. Embrace the Extremes
  307. Cultivate Your Own Culture
  308. COURAGE.
  309. Thrivival
  310. Inner Power
  311. How to Live a Purposeful Life
  312. My Definition of Happiness
  313. Why Change is Good
  314. Why Work?
  315. How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
  316. The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
  317. You Always Have Another Option!
  318. INFINITISM
  319. Never Stop!
  320. What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
  321. Live Today Like it Were Your Last
  322. Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
  323. ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
  324. Live Life to the Fullest!
  325. In Praise of Selfishness
  326. Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
  327. Why I Love Walking
  328. Live Life Like a Video Game!
  329. Simple Luxuries in Life
  330. Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
  331. Only Prove it to Yourself
  332. You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
  333. Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
  334. Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
  335. How to Find Inspiration in Life
  336. Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
  337. An Active Life is a Happy Life
  338. My Simple Joys in Life
  339. Never Stop Striving
  340. How to Motivate Yourself in Life
  341. How to Be Optimistic in Life
  342. How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
  343. In Praise of a Dynamic Life
  344. PURPOSE.
  345. How to Enjoy Life
  346. Photography Therapy
  347. How to Conquer Regret
  348. Take Your Play Very Seriously.
  349. How to Prosper
  350. Memento Vivere
  351. Destroy in Order to CREATE
  352. Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
  353. Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
  354. Seek Knowledge, Not Information
  355. The Purpose of Human Life
  356. How to Overcome Impedence
  357. Why I Love Death
  358. How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
  359. How to Be Happy
  360. Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
  361. Why I’m Happy
  362. Why?
  363. Why I’m So Prolific
  364. How to Reduce LAG in Life

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