ERIC KIM

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Placate.

Never placate others to avoid them from hating you
Placate yourself, please yourself, and do it with help from yourself and your own soul’s wealth.

We’ve all been dealt different hands, but we have the power to make our own plans
We got skill, insight, intuition and strength,
We got the power to do anything we want.

So what do you really really want? Not for yourself to vaunt on social or the gram.
What do you really want for you, and for yourself?
Do you really care to placate and appease others who already lack confidence in themselves? Are you doing it for the masses, hoping to make a pact with them, to get them to clap for you?

Clap and applaud yourself, for sticking to your own life goals, and building your own dope world.

Life is short, brutal, and hard — but you’re harder, smarter, and more swole than circumstances.

So take your chances and be bold. Why wait? The world is yours.

ERIC

True Wealth is Freedom!

People make the sucker mistake thinking that money is the ultimate wealth.

What is the real purpose of wealth? We don’t own money for the sake of owning money. If you were starving in a cell, and had a trillion dollars sitting next to you, and you couldn’t trade the money for food– obviously you’re not going to be ‘rich’. The only purpose of money in modern society is to trade money for items, tools, housing, food, experiences, and things.

Then comes the question–

What is the greatest human good?

My belief:

The highest human good is freedom!

Freedom to think what you want to think, the freedom to do what you want to do, the freedom over your time-schedule-mind, and the freedom of self-expression and self-creation.

So once again friends–let us not get suckered and deceived.

Money as a ROAD and a BRIDGE in order to achieve maximal freedom/control in your life.

Never control freedom/control in your life for more money– this is the ultimate trap.

ERIC

Distracting Ourselves to Death

It seems in modern times with social media, Netflix, YouTube, video games, phones, etc– we are distracting ourselves to death.

We are so afraid of being with ourselves, and striving towards an Uber-epic goal or aim in life that we endlessly distract ourselves.

Also the other ill:

Modern life is constructed in a way to distract us (often without us even knowing about it).

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Your Own Authority

You are your own authority

Write your own verses, the lyrics to your own story

Never bow down or cower to another,

You’re the superior– cheerier, stronger — never getting wearier.

Never look to another; only look at you, through and through

Look into your own depths, and see yourself reflected clear as day.

Optimistic Nihilist

I believe I am an optimistic nihilist. A nihilist in the sense that I don’t believe that there is an ultimate ‘truth’ in the world, and that there is no ultimate ‘purpose’ of being alive.

However I am optimistic– optimistic of human potential, optimistic of the future, and optimistic of what we can become!

How to Become More Productive and Creative

To be more productive and creative, REMOVE and SUBTRACT the superfluous your life ! 

Rather than thinking what new devices and things you can add to your life to “improve” your productivity, efficiency, effectiveness, or whatever — experiment for a month to constantly subtract (don’t use a phone, don’t use your tablet, don’t use your headphones or listen to music, etc).

Never stop culling!

ERIC

Personal Truth

It is our goal to strive for our own personal truth. To discover a deeper level/degree of “truthiness” to our own lives. Deeper and more profound knowledge in ourselves, the optimal conditions for us to thrive (lifestyle, diet, exercise, climate).

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To Discover New Inspiration to Shoot New Photos, Stop Sharing Photos on Social Media

I am anti-social media. I believe there are a lot of positive boons (pluses) to social media, but overall for society and the individual– I see social media as a ‘net negative’.

Many of us suffer from not having enough inspiration to shoot photography.

An idea: experiment NOT sharing or uploading photos to social media for a year, and see whether this will inspire you to make new photos for yourself!

Volition

Volition is my mission to exercise

To guide me through the path of my life— to fight with all the beautiful strife.

To thrive, to fly higher, to take the hits and punches like Ryu from street fighter

To get lit, lighter — wings spread high, golden glue— they won’t rip or tear, on these golden stairs to the next level, the next frontier.

The future is bright, dare you steer?

ERIC

All your photos are your own autobiography.

The photos you decide to shoot and not shoot reflect your own personal aesthetic and philosophical preferences — what you deem as beautiful (and not beautiful).

The subject-matter you photograph reflects your social circle, where you live, and the things which you experience.

Takeaway:

The more subjective your photos to your own personal life, the better.

All his photos are auto-biography — let us not let the silly notion of “objectivity” to cloud or blind our creative insight and genius!

ERIC