Trips to the gym, and all you can eat buffets.
Month: August 2022
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THE FEWER COMPONENTS, THE BETTER.
Fewer pockets and no zippers.
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JUST HAVE IT ALL.
Don’t choose; just pick it all!
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How much weight can you bear?
What is the heaviest amount of weight you could just hold on your shoulders? Maybe even without squatting?
Also, what is the maximum amount of weight you could just pick up? Off the rack, or off the floor?
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Don’t hide it
By trying to hide it, inadvertently you actually draw more attention to it.
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JUMP
Bigger jumps and leaps forwards and upwards!
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I’m Happier Now Than I Was in the Past
Isn’t this the ultimate position to be in?
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WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
“Financial independence†or even making a ton of money isn’t what we love. It is the thrill and the feeling and sensation of the risk taking in order to achieve the goal.
For example, I love the sensation and thrill of the feeling of risk taking with speculation, or even attempting a new one rep max in powerlifting. I love the sensation and feeling of hyping myself up!
Entrepreneurship by KIM
Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!
Become you.
- WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
- INNOVATION THOUGHTS
- OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
- GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
- USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
- HOW TO THRIVE
- Target Demographic
- Ambition Over Happiness
- Anti Collaboration
- The Will to Economy
- Why New?
- CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
- No Looking Back.
- 1000x Different
- BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
- THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
- EXTREME INNOVATION.
- Practicality is Boring
- BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
- NEVER STOP ITERATING.
- CONDENSE.
- Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
- Control Over Convenience
- Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
- INSANELY DIFFERENT.
- Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
- THE GREAT PASSION.
- Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
- ONE REP MAX.
- WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
- LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
- NEVER STOP LINKING.
- THE GREATEST.
- WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
- THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
- ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
- COMPLACENCY.
- JUST BUY IT.
- ALL ABOUT YOU.
- MOVE THE WORLD
- Boring or Not Boring?
- What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
- CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
- Difficulty & Interest
- The Will to Expansion
- What is Work?
- SOUL IN THE GAME.
- JUST START IT.
- Not Boring
- PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
- AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
- Speed is Paramount
- TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
- A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
- Dissatisfaction is Good
- GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
- In Praise of the New
- Uncorrupted Desires
- You Cannot Fake Passion
- SELF-OVERGOING
- FORM YOURSELF.
- Personal Entrepreneurship
- RELENTLESS.
- PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
- A Life of Expansion
- SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
- Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
- Invest in New Developments
- Investing Towards What End?
- The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
- Speed Wins
- The Philosophy of Happiness
- When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
- Never Stop Iterating
- Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
- Less But More Premium
- Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
- Why Dissatisfaction is Good
- SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
- Manifest Your Destiny
- Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
- CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
- How to Do More Work
- CONTROL.
- Competition is for Losers
- Change.
- Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
- Pseudo Individualism
- Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings
Think for Yourself.
- Survival vs Thrivival
- Become Rich
- SECRETS.
- Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
- Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
- How to Predict the Future
- Tools of Mass Distraction
- So What?
FREEDOM
Never stop innovating.
Entrepreneurship Mindset
- What is Your Dream in Life?
- 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
- Why Be Normal?
- How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?
Put a Dent in the Universe.
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To Become Greater, You Must Become *LESS* Productive!
For example, to become greater you must rest, sleep, and nap more. This is not “productiveâ€, but essential to becoming greater, stronger, more powerful.
Also, all you need is one great day a week to be great!
Essays by KIM
- Imperfect Beauty
- The Philosophy of Pleasure
- What Interests You?
- Anti Theory of Everything
- Become?
- STRONGER OR NOT?
- Carte Blanche Ideals
- CHOOSE JOY
- Don’t Judge Your Impulses
- On Becoming Less Human
- COWARDICE.
- The Philosophy of Futurism
- PHILOSOPHY IS VALUE-SETTING
- PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LIFESTYLE
- WHY STANDARDIZATION IS BAD.
- YOUR OWN TABLE OF VALUES.
- RETRO IS BAD.
- INSANELY LOFTY THOUGHTS.
- Strive to *Lose* Weight, Not *Gain* Weight
- DIABLO II ANALOGIES FOR REAL LIFE.
- If You Know Your *WHY* You Can Discover Any *HOW*
- Life is Too Short to Be Miserable
- What Consumption Takes Skill?
- OFF THE GRID.
- REALITY IS CRUEL.
- Pain is Information
- WHY REMOVE VULGARITY AND DISORDER FROM OUR EYES?
- AUTOTELIC.
- UNPLUG.
- How to Become a Philosopher
- SUBOPTIMAL IS OPTIMAL
- THE LUST FOR MORE.
- TO DO IS TO BECOME.
- IN PRAISE OF AGGRESSIVE.
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM
- OUR PHILOSOPHICAL WILL TO EXISTENCE
- Is Hope a Vice?
- MOVE MEAN
- Carte Blanche Ideals
- One Interesting Thought
- What Lasts? What Doesn’t Last?
- A WOUND STIMULATES THE RECUPERATIVE POWERS
- Children & Purpose
- Thoughts on Becoming a Parent
- Where Does Our Desire to Upgrade Come From?
- WE ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING FURTHER TO ASPIRE TO.
- Self-Task Yourself an Awesome Mission in Life
- Differentiation vs Equalization
- My Passion to *Become* Something More
- No Aesthetic or Ethos is Forever
- What is Your Higher Purpose in Life?
- IT WILL NEVER SATISFY YOU.
- How to Decide
- Things You *Want* to Do vs Things You *MUST* Do
- Towards a More Beautiful Mode of Existence and Future
- EXTREME GRATITUDE.
- AMAP (As Much as Possible) or None.
- Why or How Does it Matter?
- The Philosophy of Time and Events
- How *Not* to Resent
- FORWARD LOOKING
- DOMAIN FLEXIBILITY.
- The Miracle of Human Growth
- EXTREME ADAPTATION.
- Why Plan?
- You Don’t Need to Justify Yourself
- The Philosophy of Ego
- True vs False Passions
- How to Achieve Tranquility
- On Making Your Own Philosophy
- The Purpose of Life is to Create New Life
- Think On!
- The Wisdom of Doing Nothing
- Congruency
- My Thoughts on Meditation
- The Philosophy of Purpose
- Emulate Yourself
- Good Fear, Bad Fear
- For the Betterment of Humanity or Just Yourself?
- What you *really* believe in and care for is manifested through your actions (or non-actions)
- Why Culture is Your Enemy
- YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE KING.
- LIFE IS INHERENTLY GOOD.
- Artistic, Physical, and Philosophical Muscles
- All New Experiences are Good Experiences
- What is the Purpose of X?
- UTILITY.
- Philosophy is a Luxury
- The Attempt is More Interesting than the Result
- Joyfulness vs “Happinessâ€
- Effectiveness Over Happiness
- Self Actualization
- MAXIMAL ENGAGEMENT
- Life & Pain
- On Living Every Day with No Regret
- Learn as if you’re going to live forever, live as if you’re going to die tomorrow
- Live Every Day Like it Were the Last Day of Your Life
- Self-Determination
- FALSE GRATITUDE vs REAL GRATITUDE
- HOW TO LIVE MORE
- THE UPSIDE OF TRAGEDY
- Satisfaction is a Sucker’s Game
- Supreme Repose
- WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? According to ERIC KIM
- STUBBORN, FLEXIBLE
- EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD* HAVE HAD HAPPENED
- Good Addiction, Bad Addiction?
- What is the Best Life?
- The Philosophy of Thinking
- The Philosophy of Conspiracies
- Conspiracies
- Growth
- Skepticism.
- What Do You Really Want Out of Life?
- Seem or Be?
- Learn Through Pain
- Respect Yourself
- In Praise of Elitism
- Why Independent Thinking?
- I Will Never Die
- Bitter is Better
- The Genesis of Nihilism and Existential Dread
- The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
- Good vs Not Good
- Punished by Privilege
- Abstinence Over Moderation
- Just Leave Others Alone
- You Can Only Critique that Which You Truly Understand and Love
- ERIC KIM Critique of Metaphysics
- Only Trust Philosophers Who Deadlift
- Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back
- Virtue is a Privilege
- What Are Your Life Goals?
- Honesty
- Why I’m Anti Moderation
- No Spite, No Malice.
- Ascending Life or Descending Life?
- Double Edged Sword
- Ignorance.
- Why I Don’t Trust “Nice Guysâ€
- Why You Must Share Your Opinion
- Selfish Isn’t Evil
- Wisdom is the Goal
- YOU ARE KING.
- MASTER YOURSELF
- What is “Good” for You is Often what is Bad for You
- Care.
- BITTERSWEET
- ONE REP MAX
- Morality and Ethics is the Snare
- BY HELPING YOURSELF, YOU BEST HELP OTHERS
- Insanity is Good.
- Think Deep.
- PHILOSOPHY IS THE FUTURE.
- Open Mind vs Closed Mind
- ENTHUSIASM IS GENIUS
- Towards a More Critical and Rigorous Line of Thinking
- How to Encourage and a Foster Independent and Free Thinking
- What is the Purpose of Life?
- WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SUPREME.
- Elitism.
- I Cannot Form an Opinion About Somebody Until I’ve Met Them in the Flesh
- ALL GENETICS ARE GOOD GENETICS.
- Happiness vs Freedom
- The Birth of a Hater
- My Way Isn’t the Right Way
- Walking as an Existential Thing
- Why I’m So Tolerant
- Mortal Gods
- THE HUMAN SPECIES
- Why I’m So Skeptical
- Just Follow the Money
- Why Selfish?
- WHY WE CANNOT BLAME OTHERS
- Why Are We So Anti Elitism?
- What Actually Interests You?
- How to Become Yourself
- SELF HATE
- Optimistic Fatalism
- Death is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
- FLUX.
- How to Think for Yourself
- FLESH
- How to Live the Best Life
- Why Live a Life Without Regrets?
- Why Plato Ruined Art and Aesthetics for Us
- Self Respect
- Hypocrite vs Contradict
- Ideals vs Reality
- Spaceship Philosophy
- What is Your Ideal Life?
- MY EXTREME GRATITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND BEING ALIVE!
- Critique of Utilitarianism
- Don’t Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
- The Eternal Recurrence of Tragedy and Joy in Life
- Elite Asceticism
- Why I Don’t Like Numbers
- Action and Reaction, Cause and Effect
- The Antidote to Nihilism: The Philosophy of Nothingness
- ERIC KIM Notes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- EXPLOIT CHAOS.
- WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS
- Self-Wisdom
- The Future Belongs to the Fearless
- INDIVIDUALISM
- Why Live Forever?
- THIS TOO WILL PASS.
- Why Education?
- How to Become Yourself
- Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
- Why Am I So Cruel?
- The Great Joy of Existence
- Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
- NO DISDAIN.
- INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
- A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
- BITTER IS BETTER.
- EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE
- DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
- PAIN.
- WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
- Tomorrow is Never
- Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
- EMBODIED REALITY
- BLACK SWAN
- THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
- What are you *really* afraid of?
- HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
- Philosophy is King
- Why is Selfish Evil?
- YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
- ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
- NARCISSISM
- BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
- WHY FREE WILL?
- OBEY YOUR OPINION
- EGO IS GOOD.
- WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
- Seek the Good Pain
- Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
- Can You Become an End into Yourself?
- WHY I LIVE
- Why I Hate Decline
- Why I Eat
- Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
- EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
- Never Stop Gaining
- TRUST YOURSELF
- A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
- What Do You Desire to Become?
- What Do I Want from Technology?
- Stratified Society
- Do You Love or Hate Reality?
- On the Brian, Body and Mind
- I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
- Care over Fame
- ACTIVE NIHILISM
- Never Stop Subtracting
- How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
- A Risker Life is a Better Life
- Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
- How to Maximize Your Happiness
- Influence
- The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
- Meditations on Meaning in Life
- There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
- Is Hope a Vice?
- EGO
- Why Be Unique?
- Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
- You’re the Hero
- Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
- Why Do We Prize the Rare?
- The Joy of Uncertainty
- How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
- A Life Without Pain or Suffering Isn’t a Life Worth Living
- Free or Unfree?
- What Do You Really Care For in Life?
- Anti-Satisfaction in Life
- Why Think?
- The Eternal Return
- Only Do What is Best for You!
- Truthiness
- Why Be Happy?
- Permissionless Living
- In Praise of Unconventional Wisdom
- Become the Change Which You Wish to See in the World
- Happiness
- Beyond Freedom
- Idolize People, Not Stuff
- What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
- Why Hate?
- The Secret of Happiness
- You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming
- Life is about Choices, Not Obligations
- Anti-Nihilism
- First, Do What is Best for You.
- Live Dynamic
- How to Prosper
- Is the Point of Life to Be Satisfied?
- SUPREME EFFORT OF WILL.
- How to Become more Idealistic
- Thrivival 101
- Create Yourself
- Non-Small
- Inspiration
- How to Live a Heroic Life: Dare the Heights!
- Human Augmentation
- Prune
- Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
- Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
- Modern Slavery
- Kill the Leeches
- Wisdom Augmentation
- Why We Need Friction in Life
- Straight Line Philosophy
- What’s Your End-Game in Life?
- Create Your Own Happiness Today
- Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
- Try the Impossible
- SELF-RESPECT
- Anti-Social Extrovert
- Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
- Human Flourishing
- Simpler, Not Better.
- How to be Free
- Embrace the Extremes
- Cultivate Your Own Culture
- COURAGE.
- Thrivival
- Inner Power
- How to Live a Purposeful Life
- My Definition of Happiness
- Why Change is Good
- Why Work?
- How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
- The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
- You Always Have Another Option!
- INFINITISM
- Never Stop!
- What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
- Live Today Like it Were Your Last
- Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
- ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
- Live Life to the Fullest!
- In Praise of Selfishness
- Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
- Why I Love Walking
- Live Life Like a Video Game!
- Simple Luxuries in Life
- Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
- Only Prove it to Yourself
- You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
- Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
- Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
- How to Find Inspiration in Life
- Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
- An Active Life is a Happy Life
- My Simple Joys in Life
- Never Stop Striving
- How to Motivate Yourself in Life
- How to Be Optimistic in Life
- How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
- In Praise of a Dynamic Life
- PURPOSE.
- How to Enjoy Life
- Photography Therapy
- How to Conquer Regret
- Take Your Play Very Seriously.
- How to Prosper
- Memento Vivere
- Destroy in Order to CREATE
- Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
- Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
- Seek Knowledge, Not Information
- The Purpose of Human Life
- How to Overcome Impedence
- Why I Love Death
- How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
- How to Be Happy
- Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
- Why I’m Happy
- Why?
- Why I’m So Prolific
- How to Reduce LAG in Life
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HOW TO BOOST YOUR EGO
- Powerlifting / hypelifting
- Gain muscle, lose adipose (fat) tissue
- Become more secluded, more isolated.
- Detach yourself from numbers (demetricate yourself).
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Asian Racism
How are people racist against Asians?
The thought that Asians don’t have “good genetics†for strength, muscle building, body building, powerlifting. Just Google the “Korean hulkâ€.
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HOW TO PUT ON MUSCLE
Easy:
- Attempt to lift very very heavy weights
- On your off days, eat a shitload of meat.
This is how I’ve been successful to put on muscle. No protein powder, supplements, etc. All my lifts done while fasted as well! No carbs in my diet either.
Don’t follow convention
Cheat in your squats, and just attempt heavier weights.
Also, use hex bar or trap bar for deadlift.
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Does Range of Motion Matter?
Perhaps not. The purpose of range of motion is mostly a competition thing. For example with squats, maybe you don’t need to go that low. To “cheat†in weight lifting might be good for us. 460 pound squat (cheating) as a more interesting bodily sensation. For example, the feeling of a very very heavy weight on my body and back and legs is what is the most interesting. Interestingly enough, the only “pain†I felt was in my wrists afterwards, my wrists being unfamiliar with holding and carrying that level of weight behind me (back squat barbell position).
Also, ego is good. The heavier your numbers, the more you will boost your ego.
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Abrasion Resistant
Training clothes are the best clothes.
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Why T-Shirt?
Why not tank top instead?
Upside of T-shirt, less chafing when wearing backpack or baby carrier.
Upside of tank top, less fabric, thus dries faster?
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I DESIRE TO BECOME THE STRONGEST HUMAN
Also, I desire to wear only the strongest fibers?
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Professions which are good for your health, professions which are bad for your health?
Sedentary professions are bad. Active ones are good.
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DON’T DEFEND YOURSELF
Our Stoic armor. Imagine yourself a Diablo II Paladin with 100,000 hp, being attacked by low level goblins.
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POWERFUL OR WEAK?
Beyond rich and poor.
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WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
High profit margins drive innovation, experimentation, and growth.
Race to the top, not the bottom.
Apple over Amazon.
Ultra luxury is the future.
Entrepreneurship by KIM
Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!
Become you.
- INNOVATION THOUGHTS
- OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
- GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
- USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
- HOW TO THRIVE
- Target Demographic
- Ambition Over Happiness
- Anti Collaboration
- The Will to Economy
- Why New?
- CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
- No Looking Back.
- 1000x Different
- BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
- THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
- EXTREME INNOVATION.
- Practicality is Boring
- BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
- NEVER STOP ITERATING.
- CONDENSE.
- Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
- Control Over Convenience
- Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
- INSANELY DIFFERENT.
- Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
- THE GREAT PASSION.
- Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
- ONE REP MAX.
- WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
- LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
- NEVER STOP LINKING.
- THE GREATEST.
- WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
- THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
- ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
- COMPLACENCY.
- JUST BUY IT.
- ALL ABOUT YOU.
- MOVE THE WORLD
- Boring or Not Boring?
- What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
- CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
- Difficulty & Interest
- The Will to Expansion
- What is Work?
- SOUL IN THE GAME.
- JUST START IT.
- Not Boring
- PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
- AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
- Speed is Paramount
- TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
- A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
- Dissatisfaction is Good
- GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
- In Praise of the New
- Uncorrupted Desires
- You Cannot Fake Passion
- SELF-OVERGOING
- FORM YOURSELF.
- Personal Entrepreneurship
- RELENTLESS.
- PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
- A Life of Expansion
- SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
- Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
- Invest in New Developments
- Investing Towards What End?
- The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
- Speed Wins
- The Philosophy of Happiness
- When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
- Never Stop Iterating
- Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
- Less But More Premium
- Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
- Why Dissatisfaction is Good
- SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
- Manifest Your Destiny
- Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
- CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
- How to Do More Work
- CONTROL.
- Competition is for Losers
- Change.
- Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
- Pseudo Individualism
- Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings
Think for Yourself.
- Survival vs Thrivival
- Become Rich
- SECRETS.
- Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
- Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
- How to Predict the Future
- Tools of Mass Distraction
- So What?
FREEDOM
Never stop innovating.
Entrepreneurship Mindset
- What is Your Dream in Life?
- 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
- Why Be Normal?
- How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?
Put a Dent in the Universe.
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NEVER STOP VLOGGING
Phnom Penh as my paradise:
ERIC KIM PHNOM PENH LIFE VLOG
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Don’t try too hard
“Photography has never been innocent.†– Anders Petersen
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Shame Control
How do we control people? Through shame. Shame of your body, shame of your thoughts, etc.
The first step to self control; no longer be ashamed of yourself. No more feelings of shame.
Also, I say it is below us to shame others. Don’t shame others, just focus on yourself.
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IT IS ALL DISTORTED.
No ultimate truth, or objectivity. Everything is subjective, and distorted.
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Where does everyone want to live?
In America, it seems that most Americans aspire to live in New York. In Europe, London. The rich Chinese desire to send their kids to elite Ivy League schools, and maybe they prefer to live in either Vancouver or somewhere in California. Which you are, nobody likes pollution. Shanghai in Beijing seem to polluted, the rich aspire to live somewhere green, with fresh and clean air.
I also observed a lot of Rolls-Royce‘s, Lamborghinis, and Bentleys here in Cambodia, in Phnom Penh. It seems they are all owned by rich Chinese foreigners; better to be a rich Chinese with a Rolls-Royce in Phnom Penh, rather than being middle rich in mainland China.
Then perhaps the aspiration is this: to live somewhere else.
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Why Can’t the Japanese Innovate?
The most dependable car in the world is probably a Toyota Camry or a Toyota Prius. Yet, it is also the most boring car.
Why is it that the Japanese cannot innovate? My belief is that the Japanese back in the day were very much like how we see the Chinese today; they build their wealth through pure manpower, and their ability to subjugate the masses to obey orders. If you observe the Japanese society, it is one of the most subservient ones.
If you look at Japanese cameras, they are just iterations of already successful German cameras. It seems that all Japanese cameras are effectively a new iteration of the original Leica M camera.
Maybe the reason why Americans are so innovative is the vain desire to be unique. The disdain of following orders. This is why Americans are often seen as “lazy“, because Americans don’t like following orders.
If it was not for the radical audacity of Steve Jobs, technologically speaking, the world would be a lot uglier. The reason why Elon Musk is so innovative is that he has “Asbergersâ€. This is the source of his power.
Why Korean-Americans are so different from Koreans
I have also observed is that Korean, and Korean Americans are almost like from two different finance. They are not alike. We are not alike.
Why is that? A self-selecting thing; a lot of the original Korean American immigrants were entrepreneurial. And, because a lot of Korean Americans like myself who were born in the states were raised on American media, we ourselves also sought for individuality, rule breaking, and pursuing our life passions.
In Korea, it is very different. The goal is to become as wealthy as possible, by getting a good “chaebol†company job, ideally at Samsung or Hyundai.
The notion of becoming self-employed, or becoming an entrepreneur is not even an idea or notion in Korea. The only word I know is “arbeitâ€, which is a German-Korean word for part-time work, like tutoring English. Even my Korean mom didn’t know the Korean word for self-employed.
Also, whether the Koreans or Japanese like it or don’t like it, Koreans and Japanese are more similar than than dissimilar. Both are now pseudo-colonies of America.
After the IMF crisis in Korea, America essentially bailed them out. Also, the American military presence in South Korea. Japan has effectively surrendered itself to America after World War II.
Also to my understanding, Japan doesn’t have a military anymore. A country without a military cannot write its own rules.
We also now can see that Russia is no longer a threat; Russia wasn’t even strong enough militarily to subjugate Ukraine. Zero chance of Russia doing anything to America or China.
Also, America has nothing to really hear about China; the rich autocrats which run China are more interested in their personal wealth-getting, rather than military domination. Even the Chinese activities in Africa seem to be more about resource resources, to increase their own wealth.
The future will probably be more of a synthesis or a hybrid between the rich of America and China; Americans doing the innovating and the Chinese doing the production.
Apple innovating, and China producing.
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Approach your own life like your own life was a Greek mythology?
Life is more fun when you approach your life, thinking as if you were a demigod. Part man, part god. Very much like an Achilles or Hercules. Far better to be an Achilles than a Hector (just a mere man).
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I ENJOY THE *SENSATION* OF WEIGHT LIFTING
The feeling of heavyweights on my muscles, body, bones and sinews is what I love the most about weight lifting, specifically powerlifting and hypelifting.
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VLOGGING IS BLOGGING 2.0?
We put more faith in video and audio than we do words.
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A SINGLE HUMAN
How far can a single human being go? This is my personal curiosity for myself and also my son.
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PRODUCTIVE *AND* LAZY
To become more productive, you must also become more lazy?
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PR OR NOTHING
When you hit up the gym, either attempt a new personal record, or don’t do anything at all.
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Carte Blanche Society
My personal curiosity; if society started again from scratch, what would it look like?
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BARBELL FOCUS
Best to either be 100% focused or 100% distracted. No in-between.
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WHY I LIKE THE GYM
The gym is the ultimate egalitarian place. Anyone can become stronger; all that matters is your courage and effort.
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THE PATH TO PROFITABILITY
Cater to rich foreigners, not middle class locals.
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Don’t remodel it
Wither start again from scratch, or leave it alone.
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HOW TO LAST FOREVER
No compromises on your personal beliefs. To go harder on your own beliefs. This is the way.
To become even more stubborn and insensitive to political correctness or being “goodâ€.
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ANTI BLEND, ANTI HYBRID?
â€Cool Prius!†(said nobody)
Perhaps a blend or a hybrid (or even worse, plug-in hybrid) is a poor compromise. Hybrids are boring — they please nobody. They’re not fast, nor are they loud, nor are they that fast. Electric cars are great because you can innovate so much more with them — no engine means you can innovate so much more with the cabin space. Also the downside of hybrid cars that we still need to do oil changes! Like Elon Musk said, “Hybrid cars are still 100% dependent on oil.â€
No halfway measures. Either eat an all you can eat meat buffet, or fast.
Same with working out — either an insanely epic one rep max at the gym, or just sleep or nap and chill at home. Maybe same with coffee consumption — either drink a shitload or none at all.
Also, either 100% arabica or 100% robusta — no blends.
Also with fabrics, either 100% merino wool or 100% polyester. Either 100% natural or 100% synthetic.
With cars, better to either have a Tesla or a gas-guzzler. Also for Lamborghini — either Lambo doors (scissor doors) or nothing. Anti Hurucan.
Also with pricing, either very expensive or free.
Yin or yang. Woman as white, man as black. Anti grey.
Clothes as more stylish either when very tight fitting, or oversized. No medium.
Aesthetically, either insanely minimalist, or extremely maximalist and busy.
Either masculine or feminine, nothing in-between.
Either made in China, or USA — nothing in-between.
Anti SUV, anti crossover.
Either 2-seater sportscar, or coupe, or nothing. Anti 4-door “sports sedanâ€.
With Porsche, either 911 or nothing.
With Ford, either F150 Raptor, Shelby or nothing.
Either racecar (track only), or no car.
Either American or Chinese — no in-between cultures.
With powerlifting, either 100% raw (no belt, no straps, no knee wraps) or 100% equipped.
With ethics, either silent or 100% full-force anger.
With your kid, either 100% present or 0% present.
Long hair or buzz cut — no inbetween.
Either 100% invested, or 0% invested. With cryptocurrency, either bitcoin or nothing.
Also with electric cars, either Tesla or nothing.
Either rich or poor. Also when choosing a profession, best to optimize to get a job that is insanely moneymaking, rather than a “middle paying job†like marketing advertising. Certainly do not work for a nonprofit. Either be a banker or nothing.
Oh if you’re not an entrepreneur, and you’re not interested in working for yourself, better to have an extremely lucrative job and 100% focus on your passion on the side, rather than striving to get an “in between†job.
With living, either live in the city or in the countryside. Do not live in the suburbs. Also, do not live in Brooklyn. Either you live in Manhattan, or nowhere.
With shoes, either barefoot or Vibram five fingers, or Goretex boots, no in between.
Either man or woman.
Also perhaps either desktop or mobile, anti laptop.
With education, either phd or nothing.