The point of life isn’t to “look cool“, or do things “properly. Rather, the point of life is to win, however you determine that. It doesn’t matter if your approach is ugly, strange, or “cheatingâ€.
For example, I just did a bench press of four plates on each side, super easy, when I was able to do it from the power rack, off the floor, with the white on top of the safety pins. Doing a “nano repâ€.
How to win in life:
Perhaps it is not muscle size which is important, but muscle quality.
For example, having a low body fat percentage, and having your biceps bulging with veins, being able to see tree like vein structures in your arms and shoulders is superior than just having big bloated muscles.
Some fun thoughts:
The first thought is in regards to clothing. I truly believe that if you have the right clothes, you can do anything and everything.
Especially during the winter months, what is it that holds us back? Our fear of the cold, and the pain from the cold. It seems that the best way to overcome and conquer this is to just wear the right clothes. Merino wool, down, layers, anything which can allow you to spend more time outside, outside of the house, is good.
I say that instead of spending a lot of money on your car, just have a really really cheap and free car, for example I got my mom‘s old 2009 Hyundai Sonata for free, and spent only about $2000 USD to flush out all of the transmission fluids, oil change, fix some superficial parts, etc., and now essentially it drives like a brand new car. I got a really really good family sedan, low-key, a good beater, for only $2000 USD!
My really proud point:
In my entire adult life, ever since I was 15 years old, up until age 35, I have never spent more than $2500 USD on a car.
My list of cars:
Even moving forward, I think my new record now is to not spend any money on the car. That if for some reason I get a new car, it will either be given to me for free from some car company, or some car company lets me borrow it for free. The upside of being a “influencer“.
I have this notion of photo feed; that your blog, assuming that somebody books marks it, and accesses it 50 times a day, every time they reload your blog in chrome, there will always be something new for them to witness.
Something I’ve realized is this:
The most important thing for a website or blog is to always have new things to witness and experience.
I think this is also why it is a wise idea to allow yourself to diversify your interests, and simply publish anything and everything, with less thought and consideration. For example, I would love if Kanye West restarted his blog, and instead of just posting things to Twitter, posting it to his own blog instead. Why? The blog allows for more fidelity, and also, you can hide all of those pesky social media metrics.
Another thought I have is that it is so interesting that all of these digital technologies have some sort of water metaphor. For example, the pirate bay and “torrentingâ€, streaming, live stream, making waves, etc. These are all water metaphors.
This is the reason why I really enjoyed going to the Santa Monica pier with Seneca, watching the water. When surrounded by water, or even on a cruise ship, it is insanely inspiring to see the water. Why? The power of the ocean is limitless, and the waves from the wind are also limitless. A thought:
What if you could become like the ocean? Never stop flowing.
Probably one of the wisest things from Heraclitus; the basic idea is that you can go back to the same place, but it will never be the same. Why? Because you have changed.
For example, every day you are changing biologically. The 35-year-old Eric Kim is very different from the 25 year old Eric Kim, and also very different from the 15-year-old Eric Kim.
The foolish thing that a lot of people do is trying to be their old selves. Why would you want to be your old self? I think it is better to be your new self than your old self.
For example, it is far better to be a Tesla model S Plaid, then some old Porsche 911 car. A lot of people think it is cool to be classic, however my personal thought is that being future is better. For example, would you rather have fiber optic Internet, or 56K? Would you rather live in the old ass house, or a brand new skyrise condominium, with floor to ceiling windows?
Perhaps it is because we lack imagination?
For example, it doesn’t require imagination to think about the past. The past is already set in stone, it is easily studyable, and interpretable. The future is much more fuzzy, and impossible to decipher.
Thinking about the future, and paving the future requires a lot more imagination, guts, and chutzpah. Also, audacity, and a little bit of insanity.
Let us consider our best friend Elon Musk; if he wasn’t so “crazy“, could he have pioneered a rocket ship that is reusable and can reset itself? Or, create a car that goes from 0 to 60 in 1.99 seconds, and costs a 10th of a comparable supercar?
I’m starting to realize more and more, in order to think about the future, create the future, or live differently, you must afford yourself a little bit of insanity. Why? No insanity, no future.
I think in order to see the future, we must allow ourselves to become a little bit more crazy and audacious. My personal thought is it is better to attempt an insanely audacious goal, and fall short of it, rather than setting some sort of realistic goal, and obtaining it.
ATTEMPT ON!
EK
Thinking Bill Nye the science guy; did you know that the word essay comes from the French assay, which just means attempt?
Therefore, when you write an essay, it is not a definitive source of proof or knowledge, but rather, an attempt towards proving a certain point or proposing a certain idea.
Also, the word philosophy. Philosophy literally means love of wisdom, or the striving towards wisdom.
For example, back in ancient Greece, the funny thing was everyone wanted to become a sage, or a wise person. So the hilarity was when you called yourself a philosopher, it was like a humble flex;
“I am not yet wise, that I love wisdom. Therefore I am a philosopher, a lover of wisdom. And it is my life goal to become more wise.â€
Therefore, maybe it is a good idea when people ask you what you are, just say that you are a philosopher. Or as I like to say, â€philoso-raptor†(online Reddit meme).
If you don’t already, just start your blog by signing up on bluehost.com, and install wordpress.org. Turn off all of the comments and metrics, and just start posting.
The more you post, the more you publish, the deeper you can gain more self-awareness, wisdom, self understanding, self empowerment, and also empower others.
Become legendary:
Doing some research, even renting a brand new luxury condo in Santa Monica is $4800 USD a month, a 3 bedroom is $10,900 USD — a month.
Who can afford these things? Apparently a lot of people. Because if you are a billionaire, or worth at least $100M, it is just a drop in the bucket for you. Therefore my personal thought is that the future of economics is rich, not the middle class or the poor.
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New Manhattan is the one.
Lululemon compression clothing. License to train shorts, vital drive half tights, license to train compression top.
Men tights are good.
How to seize today YouTube vlog
If this sparked even one motivational idea within you, feel free to forward to a friend!
Carpe diem— seize today!
EK
The future of economics is rich, not the middle class or the poor.
Some fun thoughts:
The first thought is in regards to clothing. I truly believe that if you have the right clothes, you can do anything and everything.
Especially during the winter months, what is it that holds us back? Our fear of the cold, and the pain from the cold. It seems that the best way to overcome and conquer this is to just wear the right clothes. Merino wool, down, layers, anything which can allow you to spend more time outside, outside of the house, is good.
I say that instead of spending a lot of money on your car, just have a really really cheap and free car, for example I got my mom‘s old 2009 Hyundai Sonata for free, and spent only about $2000 USD to flush out all of the transmission fluids, oil change, fix some superficial parts, etc., and now essentially it drives like a brand new car. I got a really really good family sedan, low-key, a good beater, for only $2000 USD!
My really proud point:
In my entire adult life, ever since I was 15 years old, up until age 35, I have never spent more than $2500 USD on a car.
My list of cars:
Even moving forward, I think my new record now is to not spend any money on the car. That if for some reason I get a new car, it will either be given to me for free from some car company, or some car company lets me borrow it for free. The upside of being a “influencer“.
I have this notion of photo feed; that your blog, assuming that somebody books marks it, and accesses it 50 times a day, every time they reload your blog in chrome, there will always be something new for them to witness.
Something I’ve realized is this:
The most important thing for a website or blog is to always have new things to witness and experience.
I think this is also why it is a wise idea to allow yourself to diversify your interests, and simply publish anything and everything, with less thought and consideration. For example, I would love if Kanye West restarted his blog, and instead of just posting things to Twitter, posting it to his own blog instead. Why? The blog allows for more fidelity, and also, you can hide all of those pesky social media metrics.
Another thought I have is that it is so interesting that all of these digital technologies have some sort of water metaphor. For example, the pirate bay and “torrentingâ€, streaming, live stream, making waves, etc. These are all water metaphors.
This is the reason why I really enjoyed going to the Santa Monica pier with Seneca, watching the water. When surrounded by water, or even on a cruise ship, it is insanely inspiring to see the water. Why? The power of the ocean is limitless, and the waves from the wind are also limitless. A thought:
What if you could become like the ocean? Never stop flowing.
Probably one of the wisest things from Heraclitus; the basic idea is that you can go back to the same place, but it will never be the same. Why? Because you have changed.
For example, every day you are changing biologically. The 35-year-old Eric Kim is very different from the 25 year old Eric Kim, and also very different from the 15-year-old Eric Kim.
The foolish thing that a lot of people do is trying to be their old selves. Why would you want to be your old self? I think it is better to be your new self than your old self.
For example, it is far better to be a Tesla model S Plaid, then some old Porsche 911 car. A lot of people think it is cool to be classic, however my personal thought is that being future is better. For example, would you rather have fiber optic Internet, or 56K? Would you rather live in the old ass house, or a brand new skyrise condominium, with floor to ceiling windows?
Perhaps it is because we lack imagination?
For example, it doesn’t require imagination to think about the past. The past is already set in stone, it is easily studyable, and interpretable. The future is much more fuzzy, and impossible to decipher.
Thinking about the future, and paving the future requires a lot more imagination, guts, and chutzpah. Also, audacity, and a little bit of insanity.
Let us consider our best friend Elon Musk; if he wasn’t so “crazy“, could he have pioneered a rocket ship that is reusable and can reset itself? Or, create a car that goes from 0 to 60 in 1.99 seconds, and costs a 10th of a comparable supercar?
I’m starting to realize more and more, in order to think about the future, create the future, or live differently, you must afford yourself a little bit of insanity. Why? No insanity, no future.
I think in order to see the future, we must allow ourselves to become a little bit more crazy and audacious. My personal thought is it is better to attempt an insanely audacious goal, and fall short of it, rather than setting some sort of realistic goal, and obtaining it.
ATTEMPT ON!
EK
Thinking Bill Nye the science guy; did you know that the word essay comes from the French assay, which just means attempt?
Therefore, when you write an essay, it is not a definitive source of proof or knowledge, but rather, an attempt towards proving a certain point or proposing a certain idea.
Also, the word philosophy. Philosophy literally means love of wisdom, or the striving towards wisdom.
A simple power approach to financial investments and speculation:
Better to commit 10% of your life savings on a speculative investment that can at least 10x, than put money into a medium risk investment.
For example, I believe that chainlink can at least 10X in value, maybe in the course of 10 years. I think Tesla stock can maybe 2X or 3X, but not 10X or even 50X.
Also thinking bitcoin; I believe in the next 30 years it could maybe 1000X. For myself personally, if you were speculating 30 to 40 years into the future, I would rather put my money into bitcoin then a Roth IRA or a 401(k).
Decrease costs by increasing the network?
Feed—
In the world of crypto, it is not Ethereum, but bitcoin. The instantly recognizable big orange B icon, with the dollar signs around it.
I’ve been spending some time reading blog posts, from the chainlink blog, some thoughts:
I believe that a blog is at least 100,000 times more important than social media. Why? It is the best place to share pertinent information and knowledge.
For example, when I think about the success of myself, and how I became so influential, it was not from social media, not even from YouTube; it was from my blog, this blog.
What I really like about crypto, and crypto technology is that there is so much for me to learn. It seems both practical, philosophically interesting, etc.
For example, the notion of “self custody“.
Also when it comes to crypto technology related things, I really enjoy reading these PDF technical papers.
Game Finance — GameFi
Chain.link — right now might be a good chance to buy.
Why? If you go to the chainlink blog, it looks like they got Eric Schmidt on board, the former CEO of google.
Something interesting Eric Schmidt said in a conversation with Sergey:
When building up Google, what we tried to do was put a little bit of Google in everything.
It seems that this similar line of thinking applies to chainlink; put a little bit of chainlink in everything.
Why do I like crypto? It is sexy.
Becoming an influencer is pretty straight forward:
The first thing is pursue something that you are so insanely passionate about that you’re willing to outhustle anybody else by a factor of 1000X.
The second thing is use the Internet. Publish your thoughts, your videos, your photos, your ideas, your audio, your artwork, etc. online. Do not use Instagram or Facebook or Twitter; spend 90% of your effort building up your own blog, self hosted on wordpress.org, and 10% of your effort on YouTube.
The third thing is think independently, and create independently. This means don’t create and make things based on what everyone else is doing. For example, the hilarity is that I publish a lot to YouTube, upload a lot of videos to YouTube, upload a lot of vlogs to YouTube, I upload a lot of stuff to YouTube, yet I never look at YouTube. A simple thought to success:
Spend 99% of your time and effort creating and producing and publishing, and only 1% of your time and effort consuming.
The fourth thing is time. I started blogging, uploading stuff to YouTube ever since I was 21 years old. As I write this I am currently 35 years old, I was born in 1988, and I suppose if I do the math, I have been in the game for over 14 years. It took me 14 years to get about 10,000 subscribers to my email newsletter, and I’m still going strong.
The fifth thing is the email newsletter. Even though email is a pretty bad technology, it seems to be the most effective way to propagate your thoughts. For example, I think the average person probably checks their email every two minutes. The penetration rate of email is probably 10,000X of that of social media. Another example, having about 90,000 fans on my Facebook fan page, if I post something organically, only maybe 200 people will see it organically. That rate is atrocious. However if I send out an email newsletter, my open rate seems to be around 30%. Much better.
A really big thing is in regards to things, create share and publish things you’re personally curious about.
Concept — to seize an idea. *-kehp
To seize, to hold.
It seems that people lack the ability to think independently.
The best car color for a SoCal car — matte white?
1,000,000,000
One million dollars:
$1,000,000
One million dollars is a one, and two commas.
One hundred million dollars is —
$100,000,000
A hundred M— a one and zero zero and two commas.
A billion dollars —
$1,000,000,000
A one, and three commas.
If your bank account — let us say your basic Chase checking account looked like that … how would you approach rent, money, expenses differently?
If indeed you were a true billionaire, you actually would not want to be known. Can you imagine how insanely annoying it would be everyone telling you for money? Or “donations“?
For example, if you were a real bona fide billionaire, I don’t think you would actually want to drive around in a Rolls-Royce, or a Lamborghini. Why? Too much unwanted attention. Perhaps a better approach would be to just drive an uber luxury low-key car, let’s say a Hyundai Genesis instead. Like the G90.
Something funny I’m starting to realize; money is just a concept.
A thought:
Does Elon Musk think about retirement, contributing towards his Roth IRA, and his 401(k)?
Certainly not.
Apparently currently speaking, there are all-time highs from banks, offering up to 4 to 5% and even a basic savings account, or checking deposit. The idea:
You can take a large chunk of money, let’s say $500,000, or $1 million, and just put it into a standard savings account, and the bank will magically have your money increase 4-5%.
Where did this money come from? It kind of makes no sense to me; the more I think about it, this whole banking system, fiat currency is starting to feel like a scam.
Some other thoughts in regards to money: what is the real use of money?
The first obvious one is you need a place to live. A lot of people spend a very very large chunk of money either paying rent, buying a house or a condo, paying their monthly mortgage fees, etc. A really funny thought I had:
Rent should not cost more than $500 USD a month.
For example, one of the outsides of life sharing with Cindy and Cindy‘s mom’s family and her mom is that we don’t pay more than $500 a month in rent, sharing a huge suburban home in orange county California. There are lots of downsides of living in a mega complex house with lots of different people and family members, yet, I still think it may be a net positive. Why? You could save inordinate amount of money on rent, for example, I’ve seen that in Santa Monica at this new apartment condo called the park… a studio is $4,800 USD a month, a 1 bedroom is $5,800 USD a month, a 2 bedroom is $8,900 USD a month, and a 3-bedroom is $10,900 USD a month.
So the question is, where did this money magically come from?
My personal thought is in regards to money, the best way to approach things is to create real value and real wealth through real products, real services, real humans.
For example, Kanye West became a billionaire after you started designing and selling inordinate amounts of Yeezy sneakers in partnership with Adidas. Elon musk became the goat after creating physical cars, the Tesla cars, and selling millions of them. Jeff Bezos did it by creating the most epic Netwerk, the insane innovation of having almost any single product delivered to you within two days, one day, or even same day, or even within an hour or a few hours.
One of the most useful things I have learned and discovered is working out and lifting insanely heavy weights barefoot. I was first inspired by Hafþór, deadlifting 501 kg barefoot. My curiosity:
Why did he do the world deadlift record attempt barefoot?
This is what I think and I understood: when it comes down to it, let us say attempting a new world record, and giving it your all, an individual will strategize and do things in order to gain every possible maximum advantage. Therefore, the simple thought of attempting New world records, personal records, or just lifting an insanely heavy weight is that when you do it barefoot, you have maximum connection with the ground, maximum grip, maximum leverage.
This is applicable when you are doing almost any type of weight lifting. This includes rock pool, squat hold, atlas lift, the lift, farmers walk, squat, etc.
Even for other lists, I think it would be beneficial for bench press, shoulder press, military press, even Olympic weightlifting.
Why don’t more people lift weights barefoot? My theory is that because there is this low-key marketing desire to sell more weightlifting style shoes, it is a huge industry. Also part of it is a safety thing, a lot of commercial gyms don’t want to be sued by people accidentally having weights dropped on their foot. Also I think part of it is a hygiene thing, just walking around barefoot and the gym seems unhygienic.
This is the hilarious irony is that when it comes to traversing the gym barefoot, ironically enough it may be safer, because you are on maximum alert, trying to avoid some other idiots from dropping weights on your foot.
After having spent considerable time golds gym Venice beach, working out and warming up in the sun, being outdoors etc., and now going back to my traditional gym which is dark and indoors, I’m starting to hate being indoors more and more. The lesson and moral of the story:
Get a quick pump inside the gym, and get your ass outside the gym.
Try to avoid talking to people in the gym, they regardless of how interesting they may be.
Being indoors is bad for your health and strength!
I feel this is quintessential advice, especially during the winter months.
Also, maybe when choosing an apartment or a house or a home, the ultimate optimization is for natural light.
This should be the marketing language for the Hyundai N line; as a way for people to remember what “N“ stands for.
Just ignore and walk away. The best method.
When is the last time somebody has given a critical line of thinking towards productivity?
“The point of life isn’t productivity, said all unproductive people.â€
First of all, what does it mean to produce? To lead forth. Produco— lead + draw.
Metaphorically speaking, a producer is somebody who leads, and get something creative. For example, some thing I’ve learned is that in Hollywood and show business, it is actually the producer who is the head honcho, not the actor, nor even the director. And also the intelligence of producers is that they all have the intelligence to keep a low profile, yet they are the most powerful. They draw attention away from themselves by creating a scapegoat of the main famous actors, even the directors. The producers enjoy their power, their privacy, and their ability to do and make things. For example, the intelligence of the Wachowski brothers; everyone gave all the attention to Keanu Reeves, yet the Wachowski brothers remained elusive, nobody even knew who they look like. Therefore they could go out in public, buy groceries etc without having anybody know who they are.
First lesson:
The ultimate privilege is to be powerful, yet unknown.
Let us consider ancient Greece. Did Achilles derive his self-worth by how efficiently he would send and receive emails? Of course not. All he cared was the lust of battle, and ultimately what he really wanted to do was just take Breisis, and retire to one of his low-key towns.
Or, let us consider if you were some sort of ancient Greek patriarch. Essentially you would just have a massive villa, some sort of private compound, in which you had a squadron of slaves and servants, all doing the household work, even the modern-day notion of economics comes from ancient Greek, which literally means management of household affairs. Even the accountant and the money keeper in ancient Greek was a slave.
I am fortunate enough to have advanced in life beyond the average American. I have only been employed for 10 months of my life, after I graduated college, and beyond that, from age 22 now to age 35, I have been self-employed, a sole proprietor. I have not waking up to an alarm for over a decade, unless I have to catch an early flight.
Perhaps the reason why Elon Musk is the most interesting human being on planet earth is the layers of his ambition. Given that this is your only life on earth, don’t you want to use your life on earth to attempt something insanely epic?
In no particular order, and no timeline:
Let us consider, at an towards the end of your life, what will you have cared for? What will have lasted? What would NOT have have lasted?
To me, true productivity is investing your time energy and power towards things you care for, and things which will last.
I feel that in order to become more productive, start off by just making more photos, producing more photos. Get a Ricoh GR 3X digital camera, and shoot extra high contrast black-and-white, extra small JPEG.
Another reason why I am so pro GoPro mini is that because you don’t have the LCD screen distracting you, you could shoot more and be more productive.
Reduce distractions, become more productive, do and produce and create more.
A huge productivity tip when it comes to blogging is publish it before you’re ready. Whenever you have even a small idea, just hit publish it AS you’re fleshing out the thought.
One of the big upside of being more productive is that the more you produce and work on something, the better you understand the thing itself.
For example photography, the more I shoot, the more I understand photography, the more of the photography compositions I see and witness, the more I could integrate composition into my photos, and the more joy and delight I should get from photography.
The ultimate takeaway point is simple: produce more, think less.
ERIC
CONQUER IT ALL:
As a fun idea, take your phone, your iPad, or your laptop to the gym, and after you get a quick pump, do your work at the gym. More dynamic than even a coffee shop!
If this sparked any fun ideas within you, feel free to forward to a friend!
No such thing as a “cowardly†woman.
Ain’t nobody can fuck with me:
The focus is key:
ERIC KIM INSANELY EPIC 710 POUND RACK PULL (7 PLATES, 5, 2.5) HYPELIFTING BEAST SUPER SAIYAN MODE.
Let’s go super saiyan:
Get dem gainzzz:
If you want to rack pull more, or move heavier weight, the secret is in your legs. Use your legs more.
The gym is a good place to work out, and also a good to work?
We are currently in the year 2023. Why are we still producing and driving gasoline cars?, it is insane.
Getting fit is relatively straightforward. It is all via negativa things — simply get rid of the things which weaken you.
My simple prescriptions include stop drinking soda, sweetened beverages, stop consuming anything with fake and artificial sweeteners, stop eating bread, carbs, starches, vegetables and fruit, pasta, rice, beer, wine, spirits and alcohol, weed, drugs etc.
Also, don’t sit.
For positive exercises, do anything which promotes you standing.
One thing I have observed is ultimately, when it comes down to it, people are more fascinated by feats of strength, instead of bodily muscles and physique.
Girls like strong guys.
Also, men are more impressed and flabbergasted by insane strength.
For example, apparently I went viral after doing a seven plate atlas lift, but that is nothing compared to my plate and beyond Atlas lift.
For example, a lot of people have randomly started talking to me, after witnessing me lift heavy weights, or attempting to lift very heavy weights. For example, pretty girls at the gym telling me, “that’s a lot of weight“. Also guys telling me the same.
Or, guys at the gym aceeding to me. When I am about to attempt a new personal record in my atlas lift, and I am insanely hyped up, and I am frantically looking for a 5 pound plate, or 2 1/2 pound plate, guys will randomly tell me, “feel free to take whatever you want.â€
Also, at golds gym Venice, when hunting for the 200 pound dumbbell, a random guy saying “let us get out of your way, take whatever way you want.â€
It seems that everyone wants to become more productive, yet, why doesn’t anybody give thought to human physiology?
Weight lifting is an “essayâ€, an “assayâ€â€” an attempt.
How I work out:
One of the most important and critical things is to have a certain fitness philosophy. For myself, it is all predicated around single repetitions, one rep maxes.
What is a “one rep max“? A one rep max is the maximum amount of weight you’re able to lift or shoulder or do for just a single repetition.
It seems we all want to become stronger. My personal modus for lifting is in order to become stronger. I believe that this “simple and sinister“ (Pavel), style of weightlifting is the most effective way to get very very strong, efficiently.
Not just your legs, but your upper shoulder, your back, your upper back, your butt, your legs, your calves, your feet, your spine, your shoulders etc. The genius of my new “Atlas Liftâ€â€”
It is truly a full body workout, I believe it is the new king of lifts. Even more full body than a dead lift.
Very surprisingly after doing my atlas lift at 780 pounds, where I most felt it was in my shoulder, my upper back, my calves, even my wings.
Let us note the fatal flaw of most bodybuilders, their anemic hips, thighs, calves, but, abdomen, and midsection. My critique of most bodybuilders and weightlifters is that they spend too much time doing exercises in which they are sitting down or lying down on their back. The most supreme posture for a man to be in is standing. Thus an idea:
Is it possible to approach weightlifting in such a manner in which we never sat down, or laid on our backs?
For me, the purpose of weightlifting is to test your courage, test your limits and attempt to become more:
Honestly speaking, nowadays I don’t even care so much whether I’m successful in a given lift or not. I’m more interested in the amount of courage I was able to exude, and the courage and monster of my attempt.
Weight lifting is an “essayâ€, an “assayâ€â€” an attempt.
Time to take over.
This is what I desire to promote and advance:
The only cars which Seneca cares for is Tesla:
Towards more of the “strongman†style of training. Kind of like a “yoke liftâ€, or a squat lift hold:
The future of marketing:
We live in a capitalist society. Zen capitalism is my concept. My wonder—
Can we live and thrive in a capitalist and consumerist world, in a meaningfully productive way?
I think so.
The simple:
Subtract the superfluous, add the critical.
For example, if you live in LA, your life is made superior by owning a car. The nuance—
Simply having A car makes life better, you don’t need a certain type of car.
Note my 2009 Hyundai Sonata I got from my mom for free, and got it tuned up at Pacific Tire Autoworks in Redondo beach for only $2,000 and now the car runs like new. Essentially I got a brand new car for only $2,000 and she runs like a champ!
Do you want a fur coat, a rolls, or a Diamond chain?
Or do you want an iPhone Pro, a Tesla Plaid, a house, a Richard Mille, a Lamborghini (Urus Performante) or Aventador or Hurucan, etc?
My general thought after becoming the new GOAT at Golds Gym in Venice Beach —
Ultimately once you step into the arena… it don’t matter who you are, how rich you are, how famous you are, what you drive etc … the only thing which matters is your strength, courage, self audacity, self confidence, muscles, whether you have a good tan or not, and your health.
Without even knowing it, I went viral three times over.
I saw an orange Lamborghini Aventador, drop top convertible coupe in the parking lot of the Golds gym in Venice beach parking lot, with the top down, and I was shocked —
In real life, up close and personal, it is actually very unimpressive.
First of all, it looks really small. Like smaller than a Honda Civic.
Then the understanding —
The Lamborghini is 100% marketing. Lamborghini more as a concept, an ideal towards masculinity, dominance, ego, daring, sexiness, valor, success.
First, understand that everything is marketing. Also understand that marketing has a stronger impact on us than we would like to think.
Marketing works. It works on you, it works on nerds etc.
I think it is okay to want to buy stuff for the marketing ideal of it. I’m also starting to think short Tesla —
The concept of the Tesla is superior to the thing itself.
Spending a lot of time in the Tesla dealership — the cars themselves feel pretty cheap. The paint looks and feels pretty basic and cheap, the materials feel pretty cheap, etc. Personally speaking I would prefer having a Hyundai Genesis G90 over any Tesla.
But anyways — simply be hard and discerning.
Do I care for the physical materials of the thing, or the concept of the thing?
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