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I suppose what I am grateful for, being raised on my hard knock life is that I have zero financial concerns. Finances really don’t concern me. I know I’ll never run out of money.

Perhaps the more critical question to ask yourself is money for what, money towards what ends?

1. Money as “security” or freedom from care?

The first thought to consider is money as a means of buffer, money as not a tool for buying stuff, but instead, money as a metaphorical buffer in order to not concern yourself about things.

2. Money as startup capital?

The next thought then is is money a tool for a start up capital? But for what?

Then the question is, what if you could do it all without financial investment?

I’m starting to think more and more, the intelligence of creative constraints. Money as a creative constraint the basic notion is this:

How far can you go without having to buy something new?

Entrepreneurship by KIM

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

Become you.

1. How to Gain Ascendancy
2. Business vs Entrepreneurship?
3. TAKE REAL CHANCES
4. Making Money as a Hobby
5. The Best Exercises for Entrepreneurs
6. INCOME VS EXPENSES MONEY LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY
7. Entrepreneurship is the privilege of being able to attempt something new
8. How to Become More Influential
9. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
10. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
11. Become the Outlier
12. Self Reliance
13. How to Extend Your Reach
14. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
15. PVP (Player vs Player)
16. How I became so influential
17. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
18. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
19. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
20. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
21. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
22. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
23. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
24. HOW TO THRIVE
25. Target Demographic
26. Ambition Over Happiness
27. Anti Collaboration
28. The Will to Economy
29. Why New?
30. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
31. No Looking Back.
32. 1000x Different
33. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
34. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
35. EXTREME INNOVATION.
36. Practicality is Boring
37. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
38. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
39. CONDENSE.
40. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
41. Control Over Convenience
42. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
43. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
44. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
45. THE GREAT PASSION.
46. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
47. ONE REP MAX.
48. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
49. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
50. NEVER STOP LINKING.
51. THE GREATEST.
52. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
53. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
54. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
55. COMPLACENCY.
56. JUST BUY IT.
57. ALL ABOUT YOU.
58. MOVE THE WORLD
59. Boring or Not Boring?
60. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
61. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
62. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
63. Difficulty & Interest
64. The Will to Expansion
65. What is Work?
66. SOUL IN THE GAME.
67. JUST START IT.
68. Not Boring
69. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
70. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
71. Speed is Paramount
72. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
73. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
74. Dissatisfaction is Good
75. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
76. In Praise of the New
77. Uncorrupted Desires
78. You Cannot Fake Passion
79. SELF-OVERGOING
80. FORM YOURSELF.
81. Personal Entrepreneurship
82. RELENTLESS.
83. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
84. A Life of Expansion
85. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
86. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
87. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
88. Invest in New Developments
89. Investing Towards What End?
90. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
91. Speed Wins
92. The Philosophy of Happiness
93. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
94. Never Stop Iterating
95. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
96. Less But More Premium
97. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
98. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
99. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
100. Manifest Your Destiny
101. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
102. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
103. How to Do More Work
104. CONTROL.
105. Competition is for Losers
106. Change.
107. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
108. Pseudo Individualism
109. 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

• On Leaving a Legacy
• I wanna be me!
• Productivity for personal freedom
• How to Purchase your 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.

• Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
• Reality is Malleable!
• Stoic Entrepreneurship
• Against Self-Preservation
• The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

Media as the future:

ERIC KIM OMAKASE COFFEE >

Income — a consistent rushing in, like a river? Income river or income “stream”?

What about an income wave? Or income beam?

THRILL CHASER!

The future of media is mute?

Autoplay x Mute

Bonus, bonum… war? Bellum. Bella? Bellum, Bella — war as beautiful?

The website that I use more than Google is wiktionary.org. Typically what I do is this;

When there is a word, a concept or thing that I’m curious about, I go to wiktionary.org and I study the history or the etymology of it.

Why is this so beneficial? It gives me a greater clarity about the concept or thing, for example when studying the notion of “finance“; discovering that ultimately it just means finish. Therefore, maybe the wise way to think about an approach to finance is to think about the end?

Risk— rischiare— to jeopardize, to rush into danger?

Interesting; when studying this, it seems that the notion of risk may be a modern day one, as it only goes back to the old Italian. It doesn’t seem to go back to the ancient Roman or Greek.

dabit Deus his quoque finem.

Virgil

29-19 BC, Vergil. Aeneid, 1.199dabit Deus hÄ«s quoque fÄ«nemGod will give an end to these (things) also.

Finer– finis

To pay a ransom, to pay a penalty.

Fin— finance, fin means “finish”, end, death.

Don’t ask nobody for nothing.

Perhaps at the end of the day, novel innovation is what I love and care for the most!

Not being a fool!

1. Not making big decisions at night, when you’re tired, or about to sleep.
2. Not making decisions when you’re “hot headed”. Cool, rational logic, hard, slow, enforced decisions are best.
3. No irrational passion with decision making

PHILOSOPHY BY KIM

Essays by KIM

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

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I think right now a lot of concerns about internet privacy have to do with tracking, etc. But for me ultimately, the more critical thing is about annoyance, distractions, roadblocks, barriers, “if I get a new phone”notifications”, or distractions.

“Do not disturb”! I don’t want to be disturbed, or off-railed when I’m focusing insanely hard on something!

Flex your Prius!

The end or wisdom of money?

First thought, money as capital towards interesting entrepreneurial endeavors?

When your leverage is no longer strong enough!

That is, physical therapy *is* ‘mental’ therapy.

I prefer 80/20 or 75/25.

Perhaps the best way to deal with the ‘bad’ stuff in life, just make it morosely entertaining for yourself!

STOICISM 101

Become invincible:

1. Stoic Aesthetics?
2. The Philosophy of Ugliness
3. Bad Stoicism
4. Stoicism 2.0
5. Becoming Stoic
6. LEMONADE.
7. Why Arguments and Confrontations Are Good
8. “I’m Over It”
9. How to Deal With Miserable People
10. How to Become a Stoic
11. How to Ignore
12. Pretend like you didn’t hear them
13. Bad Stoic Strategies
14. The Stoic Way of Dealing With Unpleasant or Miserable People
15. HOW TO BECOME A STOIC
16. Stoicism Stunts Our Power?
17. Stoicism is Mental Resistance Training
18. STOIC STRATEGIES.
19. How to Become Fearless
20. Extreme Stoicism
21. Ethics are Aesthetic
22. Indifference to Pain or Suffering
23. When is Stoicism Good? When is Stoicism Bad?
24. Why Others Criticize or Insult You
25. True Difficulty
26. What if Covid Never Goes Away?
27. SUPER STOIC
28. Anti-Hedonism
29. HOW TO CONQUER FEAR
30. ANTI FEAR
31. It is the Duty of the Strong to Help the Weak
32. The Goal is to Become Stronger
33. HYPER STOICISM
34. HYPER HERO
35. TRANSFORM EVERY DOWNSIDE INTO AN UPSIDE
36. STOICISM x Child’s Mind
37. The Art of Manly Virtue
38. Resistance Makes Us Stronger!
39. DON’T LIVE IN FEAR
40. Emotions are Good
41. Conquer Your Anger
42. BLACK EAGLE
43. DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.
44. STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND
45. The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle
46. How I Conquered Fear
47. HOW TO CURE FEAR.
48. LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
49. The Upside of Poverty
50. How I Became Me
51. THE WILL TO POWER, OR THE WILL TO FEAR?
52. ATTACK REALITY
53. Living *THROUGH* History
54. How to Fear Less
55. Fear is the Ultimate Contagious Disease
56. STOICISM FOR DUMMIES
57. Don’t Be Scared!
58. WHAT CAN YOU CONTROL, WHAT CAN YOU NOT CONTROL?
59. HOW YOU CAN CONQUER FEAR
60. YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
61. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
62. WHY AREN’T THINGS WORSE?
63. My Philosophy on Masculinity
64. A Riskier Life is a Better Life #philosophy #stoicism
65. How to Creatively Flourish in Life
66. Introduction to Stoicism
67. How to Become Stronger
68. How to Conquer Depression With Photography
69. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
70. How to Respect Yourself
71. How to Believe in Yourself
72. How to Steer Fear
73. How to Conquer Pessimism
74. How to Conquer Anxiety
75. How to Overcome Your Fear of People
76. How to Be Optimistic
77. Why I Don’t Take My Anger Seriously
78. HOW TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL
79. POSITIVITY.
80. HOW TO BECOME SUPERHUMAN
81. How to Give a Fuck Less
82. ALL IN.
83. Why I Cut My Dad Out of My Life.
84. Your iPhone Only Has 5% Battery Left.
85. How not to give a FUCK about your REPUTATION
86. WHAT IS A HUMAN?
87. HAPPINESS.
88. The Regret Minimization Framework in Photography and Life
89. How to Be a HERO
90. Conquer Your Fears by Making Fear Your Slave
91. Rule Circumstances; Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rule You
92. How to Love Yourself
93. How to Turn Shit into Gold
94. Your Parents Fuck You Up
95. Immortality
96. What Kills You Makes You Stronger
97. How to Be Patient
98. How to Conquer Anger
99. How to Bounce Back in Life
100. How to Overcome Resistance
101. Nothing Unlimited is Good; Nothing Good is Unlimited
102. You Have No Limits
103. Can 1’s and 0’s Hurt You?
104. The Envious Moment is Flying Now
105. Tomorrow We’ll Sail the Wide Seas Again
106. How to Forgive Others
107. Focus on Your Actions, Not the Results
108. Everything Will Be Alright
109. How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
110. How to Be a Spartan Photographer
111. How to Overcome Your Fears in Life
112. How to Stop Worrying in Life
113. How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
114. How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance
115. 3 Stoic Techniques that Can Help You Gain Tranquility
116. Can People Weaker than You Hurt You?
117. Does a Doctor Get Angry at a Crazy Patient?
118. Own Nothing

The Stoic Masters

Learn from the master stoics:

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

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Critical, kritikos, means to judge.

To think critically means to wisely judge things, whether you deem it fit or not.

Or, judge it as being profitable or not, or advantageous or not.

Steering clear of foolishness?

There is no such thing as good or bad, or evil. To me it all comes down to wise or foolish.

What is foolish, foolishness, foolish behavior? Typically things which can cause permanent bodily mutilation, or a traumatic death. Driving fast, racing, texting while driving, drinking while driving or being high while driving etc.

What is the point of thinking?

A life of pure theory divorced from action seems a bit flaccid. I believe that your thoughts should also be in accordance with your actions.

For example, my thoughts or philosophies on fitness and weightlifting; I actually apply it to my own approach, and my thoughts and thinking often come to me after much experimentation.

Action first, thoughts later.

Rather, the goal is to become a solo thinker:

The 2X rule; only buy it if you could afford two of them, in straight cash.

This is where it is a bad idea to identify too strongly with any school of thought; because ultimately you’re going to just become another follower in a slave of it. Better instead to just be a solo individual. For example, Nietzsche, Plato, Socrates etc.

Why fitness, what is the point of fitness?

1. Anti-form Nazis

One mega critique I have is people who I call “form Nazis“; that is, they put too much attention into “form“. There’s no such thing as form. Instead, I call it leverage.

The purpose of leverage; moving more weight!

2. Fitness goals for men versus women?

I think for men, the goal behind fitness is towards dominance, going beyond. Maybe for women it is towards beautification.

At the gym, the most dominant person isn’t the biggest, the most muscular or the buffest, instead it is the strongest. The strongest person at the gym is the most dominant.

3. The different schools of bodybuilding?

Street fitness?

A theory towards modern day times; people who take too much drugs, smoke too much weed, drink too much alcohol, etc.… What are they doing to themselves and their body? There’s slowly but surely killing themselves!

When your leverage is no longer enough.