How to Discover Your Purpose in Life
The middle path of philosophy:
PHILOSOPHY BY KIM
Essays by KIM
- Becoming Antifragile
- How to “Improve” Men
- The Art of Virtue
- How to Dominate
- JUST SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES AND WISDOM WITH OTHERS.
- How to Get More Done in a Single Day – MEMENTO MORI PHILOSOPHY
- THINK FOR YOURSELF
- Cruel?
- GO DEMIGOD.
- How to Be Happy: Challenge and Danger Philosophy
- To Become Greater, You Must Become *LESS* Productive!
- 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 “Happiness”
- 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 Guys”
- 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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Why?
Why app — the pre-cursor to CHAT GPT?
Announcing Why App?
Try out ZEN OF ERIC on Facebook Messenger.
The “5 why?” challenge
To gain deeper personal truths about why you do anything, or why you feel a certain way … the Zen of Eric Facebook Chat bot isn’t intelligent. It is not AI. It is rather a sounding board for your own thoughts. It won’t tell you anything you don’t already know in your own heart. ZEN OF ERIC (“Why App”) is a chance for you to ask yourself the big ‘why?’ questions in life, to discover a deeper truth for yourself.
If you have Facebook and Facebook Messenger, send ZEN OF ERIC a message here.
How it works
Essentially we programmed it the following way:
You start chatting with it and saying hello, then you can have the chance to introspect and think about certain things in life.
Once you start chatting, the ZEN OF ERIC chatbot will keep asking you “Why?” until you type: “stop“.
Why did we build this on Facebook messenger?
My friend Stoytcho built this on Facebook Messenger for the practical purpose that the Facebook Messenger app is a robust platform for chat bots and chat applications. Also, you can use it on your laptop, desktop, phone, or tablet. You can interact with it wherever, whenever.
Is there a ‘proper’ way to use Zen of ERIC?
No. Just play around with it. No need to use it if you don’t want to. Rather, see ZEN OF ERIC as a personal mirror or sounding board for yourself, if you just want to flesh out your own thoughts, and to type out and explicate your thoughts.
How to use ZEN OF ERIC in my everyday life
- When you’re bored at home, shoot a message to ZEN OF ERIC CHAT BOT to just say hello, to get your creative juices flowing.
- When you’re stuck on the toilet, instead of checking Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/News/Snapchat, start an introspection session with Zen of Eric.
- If you’re stuck in line at the grocery store, open up Facebook Messenger and say hello to Zen of Eric.
- When you wake up and feel unmotivated, instead of scrolling through email, shoot a message to Zen of Eric
- When you read the news and you feel really disappointed and afraid, send a message to Zen of Eric.
- Use Zen of Eric when you’re happy, bored, sad, depressed, anxious, or anything else!
Privacy concerns
Truth be told, we cannot put 100% faith in Facebook, or Facebook Messenger. It is quite unfortunate we had to build it on Facebook Messenger, but there is really no other better alternative (for now).
I (ERIC KIM) and my friend Stoytcho did not build this to extract any of your dirty secrets for ourselves. It is simply a tool I asked Stoytcho to build for me, for my personal reasons. Even I use it for myself and my sister Annette used it to discover deeper meaning in her life.
So my simple suggestion:
Don’t tell ZEN OF ERIC anything hyper-personal. We don’t really know what Facebook does with all our data.
All the conversations are not saved to a database. In other words, we (Eric, Cindy, and Stoytcho) can’t see what you write. Only you see your conversations with the Zen of Eric.
Also note:
Zen of ERIC is NOT Eric Kim! It is just a soul-less Facebook messenger chat bot, which is programmed to ruthlessly bombard you with “why?’s” to give you deeper philosophical truths about your own personal life.
Example ideas with ZEN OF ERIC
- You can start off with an example prompt to get your creative juices flowing, or you can say “no” and simply ask it any question on your mind.
- Some example questions include:
- Why do I feel so down?
- What is the purpose of my life?
- What should I do today?
- Why do I care about x, y, z?
- Keep asking it questions until you get bored, then type “stop“. Just use it enough for your own personal benefit.
What now?
So let us say you used ZEN OF ERIC, and you discovered some very interesting truth about your life. Now what?
My suggestion:
Write a blog post about your introspection, and share it with your friends and family!
Other ideas on how to make your introspections “actionable”
After your introspection session with Zen of Eric, here are some things you can do and actually ACT upon your newfound insights:
- Write yourself an email (send it to yourself) with your introspection.
- Write your introspection (just for yourself) on a piece of paper, or in your personal journal/diary.
- Talk with your friend/family member over dinner about your philosophical inquiry, and also ask them lots of “WHY?” questions as well.
Try ZEN OF ERIC FACEBOOK CHAT BOT NOW >
URL: https://www.messenger.com/t/ZenOfEric
Dear friend,
The most powerful 3-letter word is “Why?”
Why is why important?
It is one of the first words we learn as a kid, yet is beaten out of us when we are young.
To be honest, when a kid always asks you, “Why?” it can get a bit annoying.
But that is where all of our creative energy, insight, and curiosity comes from.
To never be satisfied with answers, and to always keep asking:
Why?
How vs Why
I am a “how” person. I want practical skills, on how to do more stuff, to be more productive, how to be more rich, etc.
But more robust is the “Why?” question.
For example, don’t ask yourself how to make more money, but why make more money.
For me, I ask myself that all the time.
Why do you want to make more money, Eric?
Because I think if I have more money, I can help more people. I can help support my sister, my mom, myself, Cindy, and eventually have enough money to help my friends and local community in need.
Why do you want to help your family, friends, and others?
Because I believe they have so much untapped creative potential, yet their wages and dependence on money is holding them back.
Lesson: I want to empower everyone. To do the best creative work possible. To ultimately, empower all of humanity.
Blessings on blessings on blessings.
I’m lucky enough that I have enough. Enough– I have the one all black outfit I wear everyday that I am satisfied with, that I think makes me look cool.
I don’t currently write on a laptop; all is done on an iPad on IA WRITER– it helps my carpal tunnel in my right thumb, from typing too much. I also prefer the 1 pound weight, even compared to the lightest laptops. I returned my 12-inch MacBook laptop recently, because I thought it was a waste of money for $1800. If I need to process photos or use Lightroom, I just borrow Cindy’s laptop. Or I might try to figure out how to use Lightroom on the iPad.
I don’t have a car, nor do I want a car. I don’t want to do stupid DMV payments, pay for insurance, fix and maintain the car, change the tires, change the oil, or have it take space. I prefer renting a car, or riding Uber.
I have a Ricoh GR II camera: the best digital camera ever made, for $600. If I lose or break it, I can easily buy another. I frankly think it’s a better camera, even compared to $7,000 digital Leica’s.
If I’m bored of photography, I have my film Leica. And ultimately, film will always look better, and be cooler than digital photography.
I don’t like owning a phone. So no more lusting after a new iPhone or android phone. Thousands of dollars, and stress saved.
I don’t need anything else
I like having bundles of cash sitting in the bank, doing nothing. Giving me some financial cushion, to sleep at night. I like not wasting money in stupid restaurants, with confusing names, and I always end up leaving hungry. I prefer eating cheap Vietnamese food anyways, and I can always eat my 5-6 egg snacks in the evening to assuage my hunger.
I have access to all the books of history via project Gutenberg, and I can read them for free as .epub files, or PDF, or text. No more books I need to buy.
I like living in a small studio apartment, or cheap hotel. I don’t like owning furniture, too much stress. I don’t really wanna own a home: too much taxes, stress of fixing broken toilets, and shit falling apart.
I don’t want to own an office space. Less freedom to travel to coffee shops and do creative work.
I used to want to live in a fancy city like SF, NYC, or Tokyo– but I don’t like paying a lot of money for rent. I prefer to live in LA, Saigon, or any city with a lower cost of living. Less stress about rent, more freedom to buy more espresso, and play.
I don’t want to have a lot of responsibilities or burdens in life. I just want maximum freedom to write, read, think, philosophize, share, teach, and explore. I want to be a child, forever.
I’ll always desire more.
Obviously, I am still a sucker for technology, materialism, consumerism, and shit I don’t need. It’s in my American DNA.
But whenever I feel stressed about money, worried about the future, or concerned– I always ask myself the question:
Why?
I feel that so much of us would be a lot more happy if we just asked ourselves “Why?” more often.
For myself, I always desire to buy more shit I don’t need, or feel anxiety, because of the following reasons:
- Desire to impress others
- Fear of homelessness, bankruptcy, death.
- Fear of living a life not to the maximum
- Fear of looking dumb in front of others
- Fear of regret dying with unfulfilled dreams
But honestly, I got everything I need. I got Cindy, my family, friends, internet, coffee, and my camera. I got this blog, and a mind that can create things from nothing. I got inspiration from living life on planet earth, and I’m alive.
What greater blessing is there than being alive, and being grateful of being alive?
For me, it is to create more. To me, affirming life is to create poetry, photos, art, words, ideas, thoughts, and products that can uplift you and others.
So friend, when in doubt in life, always ask yourself:
Why?
Be STRONG,
ERIC
SOCIOLOGY
I am the uber-sociologist:
SOCIOLOGY by KIM
- FLAT SOCIETY
- National vs Individual Pride
- Dystopia is a Utopia
- A NEW SOCIETY.
- THE DEEP INDIVIDUAL.
- Why is It So Hard for Us To Follow Our Gut and Instinct?
- Sociology of Comparison
- Mimetic Desires
- Interest in Humans or Objects?
- Social Stochastic Resonance
- How to Live Bravely in Today’s Brave New World and Society
- Arousal
- Is Humanity on the Decline?
- Social Innovations
- Society *Shouldn’t* Be Fair
- Why Society Doesn’t Want Free Thinkers and Free Livers
- Our New Soft Society
- HARD SOCIETY
Sociological Theory
- TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE
- POST-MONETARY SOCIETY.
- Simulated Universal Basic Income
- DIGITAL CAPITALISM
- Capitalism 2.0
- SOCIETY 2.0
Photography and Sociology
Google SEO (SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION) THOUGHTS
And the simple strategy to google, google SEO, search engine optimization for google:
Create information and knowledge and things which you wish you could discover, consume, read, and inspire yourself.
Marketing
MARKETING by KIM
Health Hacks
- Green tea *AND* coffee: Lately as a fun experiment, I’ve been consuming Hadong South Korea looseleaf green tea, steeping it in my clever dripper with a filter, brewing it strong, and drinking black coffee espresso. The funny thing is that it looks like a lot of people try to quit coffee and replace it with green tea. Why not just have both?
- Funny thought: if you watch porn, but don’t rub one out, is it still porn? I think from a strength health perspective, ironically enough trying to conserve your spunk is a good idea. Avoid “energy suicide”. Save your spunk for your partner, girlfriend, wife, etc.
- Quit Reddit: bad for your brain, health and wisdom.
- Hot sauna: it could either be dry or wet. I think there is something extremely restorative about doing a hot sauna, especially when the weather outside is really cold or damp or wet humid cold. You don’t need to build it at your own house, just go to any local commercial gym which offers it. Also, a good place to just lay down, take a nap. Also funny enough, it might be one of the best ways to get off of your phone, as your phone will often overheat when in the sauna and turn off. Also, I found a sauna a good place to meet other men, and just shoot the shit.
- Yoga: a funny thing about yoga is that I don’t really think it is for “working out“. The big upside I’ve discovered about going to yoga is it is a good place to people watch, and often the room is hot and humid, heated and sometimes the add humidity, which feels like a hot sauna. Also the physical space of yoga studios tend to be pretty calm and relaxing, and a good place to escape the monotony of your own home or office. I had a chat with a random guy in the yoga locker room, a slightly older guy but fit, and he said that he also liked going to yoga because it was a good chance for him to relieve his stress from work, and also the upside of all the attractive women in the yoga studio. Funny thought — instead of watching porn, better to just sign up for a local yoga membership, and start to talk to all the pretty ladies. Also after doing yoga, taking a nice shower, after getting all sweaty, it is insanely relaxing. Even more restorative than getting a nice massage. Doing yoga seems like an active massage.
- The upside of doing yoga, learning a lot of these yoga poses is that it will benefit your weight lifting. For example, in the past, I’ve had all these injuries from weightlifting, like doing bench press, damaging and tearing my rotator cuff, etc. However, after learning a lot of his yoga poses and doing them quite religiously, this is the strongest I have ever been in my life, at the age of 35, and I am even able to lift 935 pounds on my back, no problem. The simple approach to doing yoga-like things is not following any sort of routine. Rather, just learn the poses which feel good to you, and before you lift weights at the gym, just do a single repetition of each. No need to hold the poses for any random duration of time, or going through any random number of cycles. My warmup routine >
- Quit sugar, all starches, vegetables, fruit, fake or “real” sweeteners, “zero calorie” silly monkfruit sweeteners etc. And there is no need for us new Spartans to consume anything sweet. Also quit smoking weed, quit drinking alcohol. These things all weaken us.
935 POUND ONE REP MAX ATLAS LIFT SQUAT HOLD TEXAS POWER BAR ERIC KIM IS A FUCKING BEAST!
1,000 pounds coming soon:
Creative Adrenaline
This is why coffee is so good unto creativity? Also my creativity after or before or during a one rep max attempt at the gym?
If it don’t look natural, it probably ain’t.
How to tell if some people at the gym or in general are on steroids or not.
Why I am so proud of my “all natty” gains:
FEAST!
Every evening dinner should be a feast!
Just grilled up a tomahawk steak, and two t-bone steaks with the cast iron, both on max heat on the frying pan (to make it crispy), and at 475 degrees in the oven to cook it!
WHAT IS THE POINT OF LIFE? ERIC KIM PHILOSOPHY VLOG
To innovate:
INNOVATION THOUGHTS
Breathe new life into yourself!
- TESLA CARS ARE INSANELY PHENOMENAL
- New Concepts
- Apple is a Photography Company
- CONSISTENCY x NOVELTY
- What‘s the Point of Having the Best?
- The Seed of Innovation
- Innovation is Saying No
- Innovation is Knowing What Not to Do in Your Photography and Life
- Don’t Be Suckered by New Technology
- Keep Innovating, Or Die
- Provoke
- Reduce
- 13 Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach You
Real patriots.
What does it mean to be a real patriot? My simple thought: if your country were to go to war, would you self enlist? Skin in the game. (Taleb)
Don’t promote or promise more than one thing or attribute
When you promote something, just center around one focused thing.
Get rid of the middle pricing
For example at the gas station, nobody ever buys the plus gas. Either the cheapest or the premium.
Becoming Stoic
One of my current interest in passions, actually for a long time, is regarding stoicism, philosophy, etc.
Why? I think in the realm of philosophy, stoicism may be the only school of thought which actually is useful in every day living. For example, conquering fear doubt and hesitation, how to advance through setbacks, how to deal with other people etc.
Stoicism 2.0?
I think ever since Nassim Taleb, stoicism has gained a new renaissance. Stoicism is now quite main stream, and interesting to a lot of people.
HOW TO LIFT 935 POUNDS 424 KILOGRAMS LIKE A DEMIGOD BEAST SUPER SAIYAN ERIC KIM MODE
Nine 45-pound plates, a 35 pound plate, on each side … plus 55 pound Texas squat power bar.
Let’s gooooo!