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Perhaps the most ethical thing we could do is not offer to “help” others, but to just focus on helping ourselves.
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The art of ignoring:
1. It is training
Delight in ignoring. Delight in ignoring others, the news, distractions, etc.
Ignore means ignorance. When utilized wisely, to be ignorant of superfluous things is good.
2. Don’t use text messaging, don’t have email installed on your phone
If you check your email several times a day on your phone, or refresh your Gmail when you know that you haven’t got any new emails, it is a slave mentality. Two things; to seek new opportunities in your email inbox is a sign of weakness, also, typically any “opportunity“, offered to you is some sort of servitude.
How to not care what other people think about you 3. See others as beneath you
This is a “bad stoic strategy”; by seeing others as below you are beneath you, their petty actions don’t really bother you. Why? When you see others as beneath you, you don’t set them to the same high standards you set yourself. This means, Their actions, words, or lack of actions and words don’t bother you.
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A pragmatic Stoic strategy to “ignore” people or to retain your zen calm.
STOICISM 101
Become invincible:
- Bad Stoic Strategies
- The Stoic Way of Dealing With Unpleasant or Miserable People
- HOW TO BECOME A STOIC
- Stoicism Stunts Our Power?
- Stoicism is Mental Resistance Training
- STOIC STRATEGIES.
- How to Become Fearless
- Extreme Stoicism
- Ethics are Aesthetic
- Indifference to Pain or Suffering
- When is Stoicism Good? When is Stoicism Bad?
- Why Others Criticize or Insult You
- True Difficulty
- What if Covid Never Goes Away?
- SUPER STOIC
- Anti-Hedonism
- HOW TO CONQUER FEAR
- ANTI FEAR
- It is the Duty of the Strong to Help the Weak
- The Goal is to Become Stronger
- HYPER STOICISM
- HYPER HERO
- TRANSFORM EVERY DOWNSIDE INTO AN UPSIDE
- STOICISM x Child’s Mind
- The Art of Manly Virtue
- Resistance Makes Us Stronger!
- DON’T LIVE IN FEAR
- Emotions are Good
- Conquer Your Anger
- BLACK EAGLE
- DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.
- STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND
- The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle
- How I Conquered Fear
- HOW TO CURE FEAR.
- LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
- The Upside of Poverty
- How I Became Me
- THE WILL TO POWER, OR THE WILL TO FEAR?
- ATTACK REALITY
- Living *THROUGH* History
- How to Fear Less
- Fear is the Ultimate Contagious Disease
- STOICISM FOR DUMMIES
- Don’t Be Scared!
- WHAT CAN YOU CONTROL, WHAT CAN YOU NOT CONTROL?
- HOW YOU CAN CONQUER FEAR
- YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
- EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
- WHY AREN’T THINGS WORSE?
- My Philosophy on Masculinity
- A Riskier Life is a Better Life #philosophy #stoicism
- How to Creatively Flourish in Life
- Introduction to Stoicism
- How to Become Stronger
- How to Conquer Depression With Photography
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
- How to Respect Yourself
- How to Believe in Yourself
- How to Steer Fear
- How to Conquer Pessimism
- How to Conquer Anxiety
- How to Overcome Your Fear of People
- How to Be Optimistic
- Why I Don’t Take My Anger Seriously
- HOW TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL
- POSITIVITY.
- HOW TO BECOME SUPERHUMAN
- How to Give a Fuck Less
- ALL IN.
- Why I Cut My Dad Out of My Life.
- Your iPhone Only Has 5% Battery Left.
- How not to give a FUCK about your REPUTATION
- WHAT IS A HUMAN?
- HAPPINESS.
- The Regret Minimization Framework in Photography and Life
- How to Be a HERO
- Conquer Your Fears by Making Fear Your Slave
- Rule Circumstances; Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rule You
- How to Love Yourself
- How to Turn Shit into Gold
- Your Parents Fuck You Up
- Immortality
- What Kills You Makes You Stronger
- How to Be Patient
- How to Conquer Anger
- How to Bounce Back in Life
- How to Overcome Resistance
- Nothing Unlimited is Good; Nothing Good is Unlimited
- You Have No Limits
- Can 1’s and 0’s Hurt You?
- The Envious Moment is Flying Now
- Tomorrow We’ll Sail the Wide Seas Again
- How to Forgive Others
- Focus on Your Actions, Not the Results
- Everything Will Be Alright
- How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
- How to Be a Spartan Photographer
- How to Overcome Your Fears in Life
- How to Stop Worrying in Life
- How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
- How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance
- 3 Stoic Techniques that Can Help You Gain Tranquility
- Can People Weaker than You Hurt You?
- Does a Doctor Get Angry at a Crazy Patient?
- Own Nothing
The Stoic Masters
Marcus Aurelius Learn from the master stoics:
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Yes, you can and will change the world.
What does it mean to change the world?
Building the Ultimate Body Vlog One of the ways to change the world is through media. For example, FIGHT CLUB. I read the book, and I also watch the movie, and actually prefer the movie one? Written stories are great, but, when you add visuals, real human faces, a story line, audiovisual, etc., it heightens and elevates the message.
For example, to see how gangster Tyler Durden is, and how gangster it is to NOT own a car. Societal critiques through movies and media is transformative. For example, the original MATRIX.
Create your own media
A very simple way to change the world is to create your own media. A simple formula is spend 90% of your time creating media, and only 10% of your time consuming media. Or better yet, spend 99% of your effort creating, and only 1% of your time consuming media.
How to become more confident vlog Why change the world?
Bad Stoic Strategies I think part of it is an innate human love of humanity.
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Beyond ownership, disownership. That is, the best way to differentiate yourself is by deciding what you don’t want to own, or what you decide to NOT own, irregardless of how rich you are. For example, the true billionaire would desire to NOT own a home, or own a watch, or own a phone, all the true billionaire needs is an iPad Pro, a Ricoh GR IIIx camera, and his body.
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I remember taking AP statistics in high school, and learning about the notion of the “outlier”. That when you had a certain date of that, and there was a certain data point which was not according to the chart or the graft, you could just low-key erase it or ignore it.
Yet, society, the world, everything can only grow and thrive on the outliers.
For example, you cannot change society in the world by having a bunch of the same same South Korean students, all doing the same thing. You need the radical Elon Musk, the radical Kanye West, the radical Steve Jobs.
The reason why America is the center of innovation is our culture of cultivating, breeding, and also glorifying the outlier. For example, even in South Korea, not how all of the famous K-pop groups are all groups. There is not one really really spectacular individual K-pop star. If you think about BTS, it is a conglomerate of random pretty looking boys, Even black pink is about the group.
However in America, let’s consider the success of an individual Jay Z, an individual Eminem, a Snoop Dogg, etc.
You are not basic
The easiest way I think about this is this:
Don’t be basic.
What does it mean to be basic? It means to be like everybody else. To be medium, mediocre, etc.
For example, what does it mean to be mediocre? To drive a Honda accord or Toyota Camry, to seek to buy a house, to seek a nice job, to seek “stability“, etc.
What does it mean to be an outlier? To distain the norm, and also to distain what is popular.
For example, extreme and true differentiation is thinking of yourself and knowing yourself as vastly different, a new species of human. Certainly genetically we are about 99.9% similar to everybody else, but we have the audacity and the chutzpah to breed ourselves into something new.
Optimize yourself to be an outlier
I do you seek to be understood, or, do you seek to become more of an enigma?
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You are the outlier, the ever high flyer. The street fighter turbo, with the golden wings and feet.
Your goal is to fly so high, that you have the blind. Soar higher on your wings, no need for things.
No glass ceiling, no Wonka elevator. The internet is vast, time for you to conquer.
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I have never met a confident photographer. Why? Over-reliance on social media, and external metrics to crowd source their self-esteem.
What does it mean to be self-confident? Simply put, I think it means to be self-motivated, and your inner directive and motive is autotelic, which means that your telos or your purpose, or the pursuit is the reward in itself.
Why become more self-confident?
My personal thought is every child is born confident, what happens as they get older is that their parents or teachers kill their inner confidence and motivation, why? The parents and teachers are too cowardly, and risk-averse, or perhaps not wise.
The greatest upside of becoming more self-confident is that you can thrive more and become more.
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Seeking innovation in the human body:
1. Farmers walk
At the gym, find a trap bar, and load it up with weights. Lift up the weight, and just walk across the gym barefoot to a certain distance. If you want stronger grip, use some weightlifting chalk on your hands and apply it to the bar.
The benefits of this exercise include increasing your grip strength, getting your adrenaline and hype up, building your traps, trapezius muscles, your bicep, abs and back, and your legs. I enjoy this exercise because it is both dynamic and interesting.
Why do it barefoot? Maximal connection with the ground, no slippage, better leverage. If Hafþór could deadlift 501 kg barefoot, so can you.
2. Squat hold
And you thought I’ve been wondering to myself, why is it that we feel the need to squat all the way down, ass to grass, or even parallel, break parallel, a little bit above parallel, etc.?
At what point, thinking about functional fitness, would we have to hold a very heavy weight in our shoulders, squat down half way, and then stand up? It makes no sense.
What makes sense to me instead is thinking Milo of Croton, holding a 1000 pound or 2000 pound oxen on your shoulder, and walking around. Thus also my “squat walk” concept.
to simplify matters even further, why even walk? Why not just push the weight off the rack a little bit, pushing with your legs and shoulders, and your back, and then holding the weight a little bit, and then putting it down?
3. Rack pull
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The royal line of thinking of us philosophers.
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Always take things back to the clean slate, from the very beginning. First principles design. Back to the blank slate.
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Critical thinking about nutrition, food, meat, and physiological fitness.
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Walk it:
Functional fitness:
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The future is photography.
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Time for us to go HAM:
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The source of all of our wisdom, strength and power is from our bodies and in our bodies. Therefore, building the ultimate body will yield you in building the ultimate mind, the ultimate soul, the ultimate thoughts, the ultimate spirit.
Deify your body
Your body is a temple, as our best friend Jesus says. Why don’t we respect it?
When have we been taught that our body is a vice?
Some theories;
First of all, the fallacious view of the immortal soul, which can exist without a body. The reason why this is such a dangerous thought is that rather than focusing on our current life, we plan for some sort of fantasy after life.
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“This dick ain’t free”— Drake (one of the best lines from Drake!)
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How to think beyond trends? Create a seclusion yourself, and then discover or find your a concept that you believe in so deeply, and put your soul into it. Then in the long run, you will win.
For example my Zen Photography book. It has stood the test of time. How? I put my soul into it.
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You’re the one:
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Glorify your own body!
Pride in your own body — the new ultimate virtue?
“My body is perfect!”— has anyone ever said this?
I believe it for myself. I believe that my body is the most beautiful, the most supreme, the most perfect thing. My body is the most beautiful male body that I’ve personally seen.
Isn’t this supposed to be the goal of bodybuilding, to craft and build the perfect and ideal body for yourself?
Also, to be able to be self reliant on your own body which means that you judge your own body based on your own self and metrics, without needing the approval of others.
This is how bodybuilders are so fragile, because they rely on the judging and the metrics of a panel of random judges to write their physiques. And the hilarity is that these judges themselves don’t even work out. Isn’t this bizarre?
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Stronger stimulants. Stronger coffee, I really like the Deathwish coffee.
Stronger stimulants, conserve your semen, eat more beef ribs, sleep more.
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655 pound squat hold:
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Advice which sounds immoral but works for me:
STOICISM 101
Become invincible:
- The Stoic Way of Dealing With Unpleasant or Miserable People
- HOW TO BECOME A STOIC
- Stoicism Stunts Our Power?
- Stoicism is Mental Resistance Training
- STOIC STRATEGIES.
- How to Become Fearless
- Extreme Stoicism
- Ethics are Aesthetic
- Indifference to Pain or Suffering
- When is Stoicism Good? When is Stoicism Bad?
- Why Others Criticize or Insult You
- True Difficulty
- What if Covid Never Goes Away?
- SUPER STOIC
- Anti-Hedonism
- HOW TO CONQUER FEAR
- ANTI FEAR
- It is the Duty of the Strong to Help the Weak
- The Goal is to Become Stronger
- HYPER STOICISM
- HYPER HERO
- TRANSFORM EVERY DOWNSIDE INTO AN UPSIDE
- STOICISM x Child’s Mind
- The Art of Manly Virtue
- Resistance Makes Us Stronger!
- DON’T LIVE IN FEAR
- Emotions are Good
- Conquer Your Anger
- BLACK EAGLE
- DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.
- STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND
- The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle
- How I Conquered Fear
- HOW TO CURE FEAR.
- LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
- The Upside of Poverty
- How I Became Me
- THE WILL TO POWER, OR THE WILL TO FEAR?
- ATTACK REALITY
- Living *THROUGH* History
- How to Fear Less
- Fear is the Ultimate Contagious Disease
- STOICISM FOR DUMMIES
- Don’t Be Scared!
- WHAT CAN YOU CONTROL, WHAT CAN YOU NOT CONTROL?
- HOW YOU CAN CONQUER FEAR
- YOU’RE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE.
- EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
- WHY AREN’T THINGS WORSE?
- My Philosophy on Masculinity
- A Riskier Life is a Better Life #philosophy #stoicism
- How to Creatively Flourish in Life
- Introduction to Stoicism
- How to Become Stronger
- How to Conquer Depression With Photography
- What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
- How to Respect Yourself
- How to Believe in Yourself
- How to Steer Fear
- How to Conquer Pessimism
- How to Conquer Anxiety
- How to Overcome Your Fear of People
- How to Be Optimistic
- Why I Don’t Take My Anger Seriously
- HOW TO BECOME MORE POWERFUL
- POSITIVITY.
- HOW TO BECOME SUPERHUMAN
- How to Give a Fuck Less
- ALL IN.
- Why I Cut My Dad Out of My Life.
- Your iPhone Only Has 5% Battery Left.
- How not to give a FUCK about your REPUTATION
- WHAT IS A HUMAN?
- HAPPINESS.
- The Regret Minimization Framework in Photography and Life
- How to Be a HERO
- Conquer Your Fears by Making Fear Your Slave
- Rule Circumstances; Don’t Let Your Circumstances Rule You
- How to Love Yourself
- How to Turn Shit into Gold
- Your Parents Fuck You Up
- Immortality
- What Kills You Makes You Stronger
- How to Be Patient
- How to Conquer Anger
- How to Bounce Back in Life
- How to Overcome Resistance
- Nothing Unlimited is Good; Nothing Good is Unlimited
- You Have No Limits
- Can 1’s and 0’s Hurt You?
- The Envious Moment is Flying Now
- Tomorrow We’ll Sail the Wide Seas Again
- How to Forgive Others
- Focus on Your Actions, Not the Results
- Everything Will Be Alright
- How to Be a Stoic Street Photographer
- How to Be a Spartan Photographer
- How to Overcome Your Fears in Life
- How to Stop Worrying in Life
- How to Use Photography as Self-Therapy
- How to Free Your Soul From Disturbance
- 3 Stoic Techniques that Can Help You Gain Tranquility
- Can People Weaker than You Hurt You?
- Does a Doctor Get Angry at a Crazy Patient?
- Own Nothing
The Stoic Masters
Marcus Aurelius Learn from the master stoics:
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People’s actions will truly reveal what they believe in.
For example, let us say that you love your mom, and care for her physical health and well-being. The best way to reveal your preference and your true belief is to actually take her to the gym every single day, and teach her how to lift.
For example, my mom is visiting me for a month from South Korea, and I’ve been taking her to the gym every single day, teaching her to rack pull, and also do the squat hold. She also is there a witnessed me do my epic new six plate and a 35 squat hold.
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How to become EK:
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Simple thoughts —
- First, try to put yourself into a position where people make fun of you. Once you are normalized to being made fun of, then you could really soar.
- The hilarity is once your ego is so high, do you actually end up losing your ego. That your own self confidence is so lofty and supreme, that you no longer think of yourself as yourself. You just do things, and disregard the judgment of others.
- If people make fun of you, acknowledge your silliness, or even try to take photos of you, best to smile and give them the peace sign.
- If people stare at you and give you a dirty look or a strange look, just give them a head nod, or wave at them.