Become?

What do you aspire to become? Not what you aspire to purchase, and not how rich and influential you desire to become. But, what is the essence of what you desire to become?

I cannot speak for you, but I will speak for myself.

First of all, I desire to become physiologically stronger. That means, stronger max output physical strength, bigger muscles, less body fat, and increased physiological energy and motivation. This is a reason why I am starting to become anti-restaurant, because it seems that they sneak sugar into everything. Even when I go to my favorite all you could eat Korean barbecue, they seem to find a way to sneak sugar into the salad, or even the kimchi.

Therefore this year, I will only trust my own food. To only trust the meat I cook for myself at home, which is frozen grass fed beef burger patties, and pasture raised eggs.

Focusing on my own self development

Another new thought: moving forward this year, I will only focus on myself, not others. I think it is the Christian in me that seeks to help others, especially when I think they need my help. But perhaps this is arrogant. Maybe it is wiser to consider that in fact, nobody needs my help. And ironically the best way I could help others is to help myself.

Even from a philosophical perspective, why do we like helping others? Because when we help others who we perceive to be less than us, we get a power surge.

PHILOSOPHY by KIM

PHILOSOPHY by KIM

Philosophical Essays

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

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