What is the heaviest amount of weight you could just hold on your shoulders? Maybe even without squatting?

Also, what is the maximum amount of weight you could just pick up? Off the rack, or off the floor?

By trying to hide it, inadvertently you actually draw more attention to it.

Bigger jumps and leaps forwards and upwards!

Isn’t this the ultimate position to be in?

“Financial independence” or even making a ton of money isn’t what we love. It is the thrill and the feeling and sensation of the risk taking in order to achieve the goal.

For example, I love the sensation and thrill of the feeling of risk taking with speculation, or even attempting a new one rep max in powerlifting. I love the sensation and feeling of hyping myself up!

Entrepreneurship by KIM

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

Become you.

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

How are people racist against Asians?

The thought that Asians don’t have “good genetics” for strength, muscle building, body building, powerlifting. Just Google the “Korean hulk”.

Easy:

1. Attempt to lift very very heavy weights
2. On your off days, eat a shitload of meat.

This is how I’ve been successful to put on muscle. No protein powder, supplements, etc. All my lifts done while fasted as well! No carbs in my diet either.

Don’t follow convention

Cheat in your squats, and just attempt heavier weights.

Also, use hex bar or trap bar for deadlift.

Perhaps not. The purpose of range of motion is mostly a competition thing. For example with squats, maybe you don’t need to go that low. To “cheat” in weight lifting might be good for us. 460 pound squat (cheating) as a more interesting bodily sensation. For example, the feeling of a very very heavy weight on my body and back and legs is what is the most interesting. Interestingly enough, the only “pain” I felt was in my wrists afterwards, my wrists being unfamiliar with holding and carrying that level of weight behind me (back squat barbell position).

Also, ego is good. The heavier your numbers, the more you will boost your ego.

Training clothes are the best clothes.

Why not tank top instead?

Upside of T-shirt, less chafing when wearing backpack or baby carrier.

Upside of tank top, less fabric, thus dries faster?

Also, I desire to wear only the strongest fibers?

Sedentary professions are bad. Active ones are good.

Beyond rich and poor.

Phnom Penh as my paradise:

ERIC KIM PHNOM PENH LIFE VLOG

“Photography has never been innocent.” – Anders Petersen

How do we control people? Through shame. Shame of your body, shame of your thoughts, etc.

The first step to self control; no longer be ashamed of yourself. No more feelings of shame.

Also, I say it is below us to shame others. Don’t shame others, just focus on yourself.

No ultimate truth, or objectivity. Everything is subjective, and distorted.

In America, it seems that most Americans aspire to live in New York. In Europe, London. The rich Chinese desire to send their kids to elite Ivy League schools, and maybe they prefer to live in either Vancouver or somewhere in California. Which you are, nobody likes pollution. Shanghai in Beijing seem to polluted, the rich aspire to live somewhere green, with fresh and clean air.

I also observed a lot of Rolls-Royce‘s, Lamborghinis, and Bentleys here in Cambodia, in Phnom Penh. It seems they are all owned by rich Chinese foreigners; better to be a rich Chinese with a Rolls-Royce in Phnom Penh, rather than being middle rich in mainland China.

Then perhaps the aspiration is this: to live somewhere else.

The most dependable car in the world is probably a Toyota Camry or a Toyota Prius. Yet, it is also the most boring car.

Why is it that the Japanese cannot innovate? My belief is that the Japanese back in the day were very much like how we see the Chinese today; they build their wealth through pure manpower, and their ability to subjugate the masses to obey orders. If you observe the Japanese society, it is one of the most subservient ones.

If you look at Japanese cameras, they are just iterations of already successful German cameras. It seems that all Japanese cameras are effectively a new iteration of the original Leica M camera.

Maybe the reason why Americans are so innovative is the vain desire to be unique. The disdain of following orders. This is why Americans are often seen as “lazy“, because Americans don’t like following orders.

If it was not for the radical audacity of Steve Jobs, technologically speaking, the world would be a lot uglier. The reason why Elon Musk is so innovative is that he has “Asbergers”. This is the source of his power.

Why Korean-Americans are so different from Koreans

I have also observed is that Korean, and Korean Americans are almost like from two different finance. They are not alike. We are not alike.

Why is that? A self-selecting thing; a lot of the original Korean American immigrants were entrepreneurial. And, because a lot of Korean Americans like myself who were born in the states were raised on American media, we ourselves also sought for individuality, rule breaking, and pursuing our life passions.

In Korea, it is very different. The goal is to become as wealthy as possible, by getting a good “chaebol” company job, ideally at Samsung or Hyundai.

The notion of becoming self-employed, or becoming an entrepreneur is not even an idea or notion in Korea. The only word I know is “arbeit”, which is a German-Korean word for part-time work, like tutoring English. Even my Korean mom didn’t know the Korean word for self-employed.

Also, whether the Koreans or Japanese like it or don’t like it, Koreans and Japanese are more similar than than dissimilar. Both are now pseudo-colonies of America.

After the IMF crisis in Korea, America essentially bailed them out. Also, the American military presence in South Korea. Japan has effectively surrendered itself to America after World War II.

Also to my understanding, Japan doesn’t have a military anymore. A country without a military cannot write its own rules.

We also now can see that Russia is no longer a threat; Russia wasn’t even strong enough militarily to subjugate Ukraine. Zero chance of Russia doing anything to America or China.

Also, America has nothing to really hear about China; the rich autocrats which run China are more interested in their personal wealth-getting, rather than military domination. Even the Chinese activities in Africa seem to be more about resource resources, to increase their own wealth.

The future will probably be more of a synthesis or a hybrid between the rich of America and China; Americans doing the innovating and the Chinese doing the production.

Apple innovating, and China producing.

Life is more fun when you approach your life, thinking as if you were a demigod. Part man, part god. Very much like an Achilles or Hercules. Far better to be an Achilles than a Hector (just a mere man).

The feeling of heavyweights on my muscles, body, bones and sinews is what I love the most about weight lifting, specifically powerlifting and hypelifting.

We put more faith in video and audio than we do words.

How far can a single human being go? This is my personal curiosity for myself and also my son.

To become more productive, you must also become more lazy?

When you hit up the gym, either attempt a new personal record, or don’t do anything at all.

My personal curiosity; if society started again from scratch, what would it look like?

Best to either be 100% focused or 100% distracted. No in-between.

The gym is the ultimate egalitarian place. Anyone can become stronger; all that matters is your courage and effort.

Cater to rich foreigners, not middle class locals.

Wither start again from scratch, or leave it alone.

No compromises on your personal beliefs. To go harder on your own beliefs. This is the way.

To become even more stubborn and insensitive to political correctness or being “good”.

I love the mall!