Month: May 2023

A stoic — the art of becoming a real man.

STOICISM 101

Become invincible:

1. Why Arguments and Confrontations Are Good
2. “I’m Over It”
3. How to Deal With Miserable People
4. How to Become a Stoic
5. How to Ignore
6. Pretend like you didn’t hear them
7. Bad Stoic Strategies
8. The Stoic Way of Dealing With Unpleasant or Miserable People
9. HOW TO BECOME A STOIC
10. Stoicism Stunts Our Power?
11. Stoicism is Mental Resistance Training
12. STOIC STRATEGIES.
13. How to Become Fearless
14. Extreme Stoicism
15. Ethics are Aesthetic
16. Indifference to Pain or Suffering
17. When is Stoicism Good? When is Stoicism Bad?
18. Why Others Criticize or Insult You
19. True Difficulty
20. What if Covid Never Goes Away?
21. SUPER STOIC
22. Anti-Hedonism
23. HOW TO CONQUER FEAR
24. ANTI FEAR
25. It is the Duty of the Strong to Help the Weak
26. The Goal is to Become Stronger
27. HYPER STOICISM
28. HYPER HERO
29. TRANSFORM EVERY DOWNSIDE INTO AN UPSIDE
30. STOICISM x Child’s Mind
31. The Art of Manly Virtue
32. Resistance Makes Us Stronger!
33. DON’T LIVE IN FEAR
34. Emotions are Good
35. Conquer Your Anger
36. BLACK EAGLE
37. DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.
38. STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND
39. The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle
40. How I Conquered Fear
41. HOW TO CURE FEAR.
42. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
43. The Upside of Poverty
44. How I Became Me
45. THE WILL TO POWER, OR THE WILL TO FEAR?
46. ATTACK REALITY
47. Living *THROUGH* History
48. How to Fear Less
49. Fear is the Ultimate Contagious Disease
50. STOICISM FOR DUMMIES
51. Don’t Be Scared!
52. WHAT CAN YOU CONTROL, WHAT CAN YOU NOT CONTROL?
53. HOW YOU CAN CONQUER FEAR
54. YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
55. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
56. WHY AREN’T THINGS WORSE?
57. My Philosophy on Masculinity
58. A Riskier Life is a Better Life #philosophy #stoicism
59. How to Creatively Flourish in Life
60. Introduction to Stoicism
61. How to Become Stronger
62. How to Conquer Depression With Photography
63. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
64. How to Respect Yourself
65. How to Believe in Yourself
66. How to Steer Fear
67. How to Conquer Pessimism
68. How to Conquer Anxiety
69. How to Overcome Your Fear of People
70. How to Be Optimistic
71. Why I Don’t Take My Anger Seriously
72. HOW TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL
73. POSITIVITY.
74. HOW TO BECOME SUPERHUMAN
75. How to Give a Fuck Less
76. ALL IN.
77. Why I Cut My Dad Out of My Life.
78. Your iPhone Only Has 5% Battery Left.
79. How not to give a FUCK about your REPUTATION
80. WHAT IS A HUMAN?
81. HAPPINESS.
82. The Regret Minimization Framework in Photography and Life
83. How to Be a HERO
84. Conquer Your Fears by Making Fear Your Slave
85. Rule Circumstances; Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rule You
86. How to Love Yourself
87. How to Turn Shit into Gold
88. Your Parents Fuck You Up
89. Immortality
90. What Kills You Makes You Stronger
91. How to Be Patient
92. How to Conquer Anger
93. How to Bounce Back in Life
94. How to Overcome Resistance
95. Nothing Unlimited is Good; Nothing Good is Unlimited
96. You Have No Limits
97. Can 1’s and 0’s Hurt You?
98. The Envious Moment is Flying Now
99. Tomorrow We’ll Sail the Wide Seas Again
100. How to Forgive Others
101. Focus on Your Actions, Not the Results
102. Everything Will Be Alright
103. How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
104. How to Be a Spartan Photographer
105. How to Overcome Your Fears in Life
106. How to Stop Worrying in Life
107. How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
108. How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance
109. 3 Stoic Techniques that Can Help You Gain Tranquility
110. Can People Weaker than You Hurt You?
111. Does a Doctor Get Angry at a Crazy Patient?
112. Own Nothing

The Stoic Masters

Learn from the master stoics:

• Seneca
• Marcus Aurelius
• Epictetus
• Publilius Syrus
• Heraclitus

See all philosophy >

Stoic armour up!

What is “power”? Potency?

Ability, “I can do”. Posso— possibility.

An interesting life barbell as this; live in one of those new funny hipster apartment luxury condos inside the suburbs?

When your wife asks you to do something, just do it.

Incoming soon

Google is a trap. Considering that they are going all in on AI, I think that means that they want to really care to prioritize showing search results from real human beings and real Content Creators.

This means, get off of Google in YouTube while you still can!

How to go demi:

gelh

Steroid is a back formation of sterol, which is also from cholesterol — cholesterine in French.

Khole in Ancient Greek.

Gall bladder — from the liver?

Especially, the bodybuilding free weight section, much more genki, lively and fun!

Assuming we want to become the new Spartans, the question; what did ancient Sparta really look like anyways?

The funny thing is that it seems en vogue to have a “murdered out” car, which means, a black on black on black on black on black car.

However, maybe it might be more effective instead to think, having a “murdered out“ body?

One of the great things about the body is that it is democratic, which means, anyone and everybody can achieve a phenomenal physique, assuming one lifts heavy weights, intermittent fasting, 100% carnivore diet.

What is the genesis of thinking?

In America, we seem to bemoan the fact that so many people “waste“ time watching TV, YouTube, streaming services, etc. However what I have discovered is this: it seems to be a class issue. For example, if you are poor or middle class, maybe even upper middle class, media is an effective way for poor people to entertain themselves. If you were really rich, you wouldn’t be sedentary in front of a screen. Instead you would be doing something physically active.

Procreate on iPad or iPhone — magic wand adjustments, Gradient Map, and apply — I like the Noir black and red one:

The reason I don’t believe in “genetics”—

People fall into genetic fatalism — oh it’s just because my genes are XYZ I cannot do ABC.

No.

Genes got nothing to do with nothing.

“Genetics” in bodybuilding as a farce — it’s just all steroids at the end of the day for these weirdos.

“Genetics” in bodybuilding as a farce — it’s just all steroids at the end of the day for these weirdos.

The promise of iPhone Pro, or the promise of these new video vlogging / still cameras?

Keep experimenting, innovating, etc.

I want more OOMPH from my photos!

More contrast, darker blacks, more intensity contrast and extreme!

Contrast also as a metaphorical concept? The more contrast in your life, the better?

“The gladiator makes his plans once he steps into the arena.” – Publilius Syrus

In praise of not “planning too far ahead”.

Vlog

Buy it frozen! 100% carnivore diet baby!

To care about the opinions of others seems to be a signal of extreme self insecurity.

Thanks for recording Dima!

EKTUBE

Funny enough, this could be one of the “safest” lifts you can do!

When doing it, 10000% focus. Eyes closed, all went blank.

Video

After doing it, surprisingly I don’t feel it at all in my knees or my back. Instead, I feel like all in my traps, upper shoulders, and even now a little bit in my left hip.

For example, my extreme joy of getting Seneca chicharrón, pork rinds, the one without any sugar added. He really likes the epic brand, with the pink Himalayan sea salt!

Towards a keto carnivore kid!

If your wife wants it, get it for her or provide it for her.

I aspire to turn my blog into an everything blog?

Disfluency is good.

For pure power, you want to turn off your brain, to not think.

Maybe when we care too much, it is a sign of a weak constitution?

Something I am curious about… who has the highest testosterone levels at the gym, even including those who take anabolic steroids?

Also another thought, is it possible for somebody who doesn’t take anabolic steroids to have higher testosterone than someone who does?

Also a theory; when you’re about to do an insanely heavy one rep max lift, I’m sure your testosterone levels go up 100,000x-fold.

It seems that the problem about many of these companies is that there are no real visionaries at the helm. It seems that what a lot of people try to do is this:

Package up a company, like Lucid, and try to IPO it and sell it on the market.

Perhaps the only companies which will persist are the ones with true visionaries at the helm. The ones who truly have soul in the game (Nassim Taleb). Like Elon Musk.

Then perhaps, all other companies are doomed to fail, or to simply persist into mediocrity.

Trying to become unique by simply selecting a unique color seems unwise.

For example with cars, essentially all colors have been selected, and used.

Even with fashion, certainly there are some clothing which have unique colors and unique color combinations, but ultimately, to assert your own individuality and uniqueness through the colors you wear also seems like a trap.

Personally speaking, I think the only really unique colors and color combinations I have witnessed was through Kanye West in his Yeezy sneakers.

Never build your empire on a foreign platform.

What happens to a society once everything becomes flat, and there is no notions of hierarchy? Even notions of meritocracy involves some sort of hierarchy based on merit and effort and guts and courage!

White is the color of purity, effeminateness.

Ultra black? Ten-fold, 10x black?

With clothing, how many layers of black can you wear?

Also with cars, is there a way to add more layers of black to it?

Also, perhaps the darker, more tan your skin is, the more powerful you look?

Something very interesting that I learned in my African-American studies class as an undergraduate was that with men, like Denzel Washington, the darker of your skin is, the more masculine you are perceived. African-American men with lighter skin are seen as weaker.

Conversely, with women, the lighter and more fair skinned they are, the more beautiful and feminine they are perceived. For example, in the African-American community, having a lighter skin pigment like a Beyoncé is seen as more beautiful.

Maybe this is why executives like to be driven around in black Mercedes or black Maybachs.

Also, in terms of masculinity and power and dominance, African-American men are seen as more powerful stronger and more dominant than Caucasian men.

The goal should be towards strengthening, not weakening.

Go all in!

Traditionally, really big cars are terrible because they are gas guzzlers, they are notoriously difficult to maintain, etc. However, assuming that it is 100% electric, almost all of these downsides are solved.

Therefore, maybe practically speaking, having a really really big all electric car is a good idea?

My fascination with all the electric hummer, as well as the all electric Ford F150 lightning.

No badges.