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Why Do We Get Bored?

Why do we get bored? Because lack of challenge, difficulty, risk, randomness, or chaos!

Solution:

  1. Add more difficulty in our lives: Powerlifting style, increase one-rep max for deadlift.
  2. Take more risks, particularly social risks (or entrepreneurial risks).
  3. Inject more randomness, chaos, and uncertainty into our everyday lives: Less algorithm-generated, more randomness in human interactions. We can also ‘disrupt’ our everyday habits in small ways; take a new route home, get home without using Google Maps, trying new foods, eating at new places, and experimenting with new routines.
  4. Travel to difficult places: For example, traveling to Havana for a week (no wifi).
  5. Most challenging and fun is to create! Create blog posts, photos, videos, beats, and share/publish them to your own website/blog.

MAX OUT

It seems to me, the best way to live life is to attempt to MAX OUT. In weight-lifting, strive towards the powerlifting “one rep max” style, and keep attempting MORE until you MAX OUT, and fail.

In business, work, and life– keep seeing how far you can push the envelope.

A life where you are constantly maxing out will mean a lot of failure. But it will also mean a life which is more interesting, more forbidden, more dangerous, and more epic.

MAX OUT — don’t be the last out!
ERIC

Philosophy by KIM >

Satisfy Your Will

When I pursue and follow and listen to my will, I’m happy! When I act contrary to my will, or feel as if I’m not able to act upon my will, I feel unhappy.

Thus happiness is created from us exercising our will, our willpower and our desires! And the more conscious we are of a gain in our power, the happier we are!

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Lessons on Value

Why do I like good value?

When I get something which I perceive is good value— I feel more clever, smart, and innovative! To be able to figure out a more cost-effective solution for not much money.

Thus perhaps value is a system of problem-solving, and the desire to flex your own individual “smartness”, “cleverness”, or ingenuity?

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TRUST YOURSELF.

Who is the best person to trust? Trust yourself. Trust your gut. Trust your personal taste in aesthetics. Trust your own moral judgement, your own ethics, without worrying that someone is “looking over your shoulder” or “watching your every action”.

No heaven or hell. No (conscious) afterlife. Every decision you take and make is a mini-experiment. You learn via “trial and error” with real decision-making what is “good” or “bad” for you (useful/harmful).

Ignore metrics, numbers, followers, likes, and money.

Your true judge is only you.
ERIC

Anti-Definition

Perhaps the best way to distinguish yourself or define yourself:

Define yourself via what you DON’T do, what you DONT believe in, and what you are anti (against).

How to Retire

I’m currently 31 years old, and effectively I feel retired. What does it mean to be retired, and how to retire?

I cannot speak for you, but let me simply draw upon my experiences and thoughts:

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