ERIC KIM ₿

Because it makes us feel more elevated, more powerful!

Instead, do something about it.

Maybe, when people criticize or critique you for being a “attention whore“, or wanting to be at the “center of attention”, what they are really saying or thinking is this:

I wish I had his courage.

Literally and metaphorically.

Better to just leave other people alone.

Now that we have image GPT, and these image generation tools, etc., what is the role of humans? The role of humans is creative. It is the human who posits to the machine what to create.

Therefore, man as the philosophical creative value-setter.

The thinker is a walker.

I cannot tolerate when people try to “explain” things to me in a denigrating manner.

STOICISM 101

Become invincible:

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

The Stoic Masters

Learn from the master stoics:

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

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Life is what you make out of it. Literally.

It simply signals how stupidly you’re willing to waste money.

The only and true way to signal your true power is at the gym, how much you’re willing to risk when attempting a certain one rep max.

I currently have all Lululemon everything compression clothing, in black, and I really love it. I have the vital Drive series, both longsleeve and tank top for men, size medium, as well as the vital Drive compression half leggings, and also now the full leggings. They are both great.

This is the clothes that I have worn to hit a new personal records in some of my demigod lifts, atlas lift and rack pull, and also floor bench press.

The reason I think it is good:

1. First of all, it is very easy to roll up, and expose your midsection, essentially turning the clothing into a crop top, which is good because not having fabric on your stomach means that there is less fabric that gets in the way.
2. When I am doing an atlas lift, I like having the long sleeve compression clothing to cover my shoulders, because the barbell will not dig into my flesh. I once did an atlas lift with a very heavy weight, in a tank top, and the serrated edges of the barbell actually broke skin on my beard shoulders. Therefore thinking of compression clothing like a second skin, or a layer of armor is a good idea.
3. Third, one thing I really like about Lululemon clothing for men is that it is very unobtrusive and low-key. No obnoxious logo. The Lululemon logo is small and discreet.
4. I also have a theory that compression clothing is good for productivity. Why? I have a theory that compression clothing motivates you to move. To not remain static.
5. Also, I believe that it is more intelligent to spend a lot of money on your workout clothes than your car. Also, I believe that it is more intelligent to spend a lot of money on your workout clothes than your car. For example, my extreme pride that in my whole adult life, I have never spent more than $2500 USD on the car. Even the last car inherited from my mom, an old 2009 Hyundai sonata with over 200,000 miles on the dash I inherited from my mom for free, and I might’ve only spent about $2000 USD to fix and tune it up. As a consequence, having not been one of these suckers who spend over $30,000 on a car, I believe I have unlimited funds to entrepreneur my clothing and approach to life and things.
6. The interesting thing with Lululemon clothing is that currently speaking, it is the most elite clothing to wear, not only for women but also men. When you go into the gym, nobody has any idea what your drive. And also when you go to the mall, nobody has any idea what car you drive. You cannot take your Lamborghini with you into the mall or into the gym. Better to just have your clothes look like a Lamborghini, Rather than to actually own one. Or better yet, transform your body into a Lamborghini.
7. With the vital drive half legging compression shorts, I roll them all the way up — to show off as much of my thighs as possible! Essentially I now got “booty shorts” for men!

My ideal:

Personally speaking, I believe that the Google pixel, Google pixel pro may actually be a superior phone to the iPhone Pro. Yet the marketing is insanely bad and lame for it. Suggestions and thoughts —

First of all, I think it is very distasteful that all of these corporations and industries have stolen the “Pro“ moniker from Apple. The truly courageous and intelligent thing to do instead is to create their own marketing concept or word for it. For example, Google could call their “Pro” phone the “Titan” or something like that. For example,

Google Pixel Titan

Color naming conventions

“Hazel”?? to call a phone Hazel is insanely bizarre. I have no idea what the color hazel is. Instead, just call it “Bronze”— much more gangsta.

Nobody cares for a Google pixel watch. By offering discounts on the watch, you make both devices less desirable. Also, advertising trade-in money back, or even financing options is lame.

Get rid of all of these spammy specials

The best camera in the industry

Here, Google needs to go for the kill. Having witnessed the difference between the iPhone Pro and the Google pixel pro, I personally believe that the Google pixel pro photos are superior to the iPhone pro. Why is this? Google has done a intelligent job poaching the best computational photography experts from the field, computer scientist and vision experts from UC Berkeley etc.

The marketing material and language should not be meek. It needs to be more audacious, more bold. For example,

“The best camera in the industry.”

Nobody cares for a “helpful“ phone

Here, it looks like the Google, Google pixel marketing team is run by a bunch of nerds who have no idea what people really want. What do people really want? Distinction, luxury, glamour, sexiness, etc. Nobody wants nor cares for a “helpful“ phone. This concept must be axed.

More focus should be done on making people aspirationally more productive, more superhuman

Who is the type of person to want to buy a Google pixel pro phone over an iPhone pro? It needs to be somebody who is super super mega insanely caring about becoming more productive.

Photo examples from iPhone 14 Pro not impressive nor compelling.

First, become in insanely hyper health and THEN pursue art!

You got nothing to fear:

If you sense any air of resentment … they’re not real family nor friends.

I love the #saunalife

A life with more travel, more foreign places, experiences, entrepreneurial ventures, etc.

And so is Leica.

Creating, or becoming the change which you wish to see manifested in the world.

The skill of observation is all about finding wonderment in everything in the world.

New thoughts, new concepts, new lifestyle approaches, etc.

Enthusiasm means a god dwelling within you:

Whether they suffer from a physical, physiological disease or even a mental one.

Theory; mental disease roots from the physiological.

Listening to Pop Style by Drake, Jay Z and Kanye West; a thought—

Perhaps the upside of mumbling, mumble rap, mumble music is that you are not restricted by grammar or traditional modes of communication, which allows for more innovation.

Also, this sentiment is mirrored by Nassim Taleb, that actually, if you want people to more attentively listen to you, by mumbling, they’re more likely to try to focus and pay attention to you.

This is an important thing, because we are indoctrinated to think that the best way to talk is loudly and clearly, like a Ted talk, or writing like the New York Times. However, what if this methodology is holding us back, and holding back human creativity, modes of expression, and creative artistic innovation?

Then, maybe the best way to become more creative is to unchain yourself from the rules of grammar, and traditional ways of doing things.

I love love love the hot sauna.

I think the reason why we should not trust TikTok, maybe even been TikTok in the states is because it is owned by Tencent, a Chinese corporation.

I find the asymmetry fascinating. In mainland China, all American technology companies and apps are not permitted, yet, we allow TikTok and other Chinese technology companies to be used in the states?

I am quite anti-Donald Trump, yet, at least he was anti-China and anti-TikTok?

At least when it comes to competition. I still prefer the ethos of powerlifting, in terms of the one rep max concept.

However, we must detach ourselves from basic notions of just doing the basic squat, deadlift and bench. New lifts need to be invented and innovated.