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Weightlifting VLOG
How to start lifting weights at the gym:
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JUST WORK AT THE GYM
Do your work related things while at the gym! The best place to get hyped!
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Why I love street photography so much
It is the ultimate dynamic form of creative art making
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In camera storage is the future for digital cameras
Anti-SD cards or external memory cards.
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Women should not have to give birth to more than one child
The ultimate luck and privilege as a man, your wife giving birth to a male heir.
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Marketing Thoughts
How to think like an entrepreneur vlog How to master marketing:
Entrepreneurship by KIM
Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!
Become you.
- How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
- Become the Outlier
- Self Reliance
- How to Extend Your Reach
- NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
- PVP (Player vs Player)
- How I became so influential
- WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
- WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
- INNOVATION THOUGHTS
- OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
- GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
- USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
- HOW TO THRIVE
- Target Demographic
- Ambition Over Happiness
- Anti Collaboration
- The Will to Economy
- Why New?
- CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
- No Looking Back.
- 1000x Different
- BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
- THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
- EXTREME INNOVATION.
- Practicality is Boring
- BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
- NEVER STOP ITERATING.
- CONDENSE.
- Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
- Control Over Convenience
- Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
- INSANELY DIFFERENT.
- Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
- THE GREAT PASSION.
- Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
- ONE REP MAX.
- WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
- LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
- NEVER STOP LINKING.
- THE GREATEST.
- WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
- THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
- ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
- COMPLACENCY.
- JUST BUY IT.
- ALL ABOUT YOU.
- MOVE THE WORLD
- Boring or Not Boring?
- What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
- CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
- Difficulty & Interest
- The Will to Expansion
- What is Work?
- SOUL IN THE GAME.
- JUST START IT.
- Not Boring
- PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
- AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
- Speed is Paramount
- TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
- A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
- Dissatisfaction is Good
- GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
- In Praise of the New
- Uncorrupted Desires
- You Cannot Fake Passion
- SELF-OVERGOING
- FORM YOURSELF.
- Personal Entrepreneurship
- RELENTLESS.
- PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
- A Life of Expansion
- SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
- Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
- Invest in New Developments
- Investing Towards What End?
- The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
- Speed Wins
- The Philosophy of Happiness
- When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
- Never Stop Iterating
- Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
- Less But More Premium
- Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
- Why Dissatisfaction is Good
- SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
- Manifest Your Destiny
- Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
- CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
- How to Do More Work
- CONTROL.
- Competition is for Losers
- Change.
- Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
- Pseudo Individualism
- Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings
Think for Yourself.
- Survival vs Thrivival
- Become Rich
- SECRETS.
- Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
- Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
- How to Predict the Future
- Tools of Mass Distraction
- So What?
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.
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HYUNDAI N IS INSANELY GANGSTA
Check out the new Hyundai N concepts — Porsche 911 GT3 RS KILLER
Insanely epic. So gangsta. Makes me so proud to be Korean American!
Looks like the new Delorean!
Hyundai- Kia-Genesis as the future of car design.
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A House on Wheels
Or a living room on wheels?
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FREEDOM
Freedom of movement, freedom of activity, freedom to do or not do as one pleases.
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How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
The risk is the reward:
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Wedding Street Photography
Shoot a wedding like a street photographer.
Also, how I shot my own wedding, in a street photography style.
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Minor Annoyances
The best way to approach life is to think that everything and everyone else is just a minor annoyance.
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Magnanimous Body, Magnanimous Mind
Strive to become as insanely mega as you can!
Seek insanely mega
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Petty Body, Petty Mind
Also on the contrary —
Great body, great mind.
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How to Become a More Courageous Photographer
Conquer Courage
Courage is everything. It is my personal thought that “success“ doesn’t matter. What matters instead is the degree and the level of courage you’re willing to put out, in the context of your own life goals.
Your life
Your own life is only this one. A thought:
Let us assume that there is no afterlife, or no cognizant afterlife. If this were the only life you had, then, how would you live it?
Some thoughts include having kids, because most likely, your kids will outlive you.
Also, writing things down, and publishing them online. Or publishing them as open source PDF documents, or books, ensuring them online for free.
Or, making YouTube videos, and vlogs, and putting them online, no advertisements.
Your information will outlive you.
I think deep down, all humans have some sort of built in biological altruism. That is, we care about others. We care about humanity and the human race.
Therefore as a simple thought:
In this one life you have, what do you desire to do, create, make, innovate, and share?
For myself, at the first level I desire to empower other photographers. I remember when I started photography at the age of 18 years old, it was all so confusing. Also, all of the things that I read online, or in books were very unuseful. I seek to create the most motivational, helpful, and encouraging information in regards to photography. Thus my Photography 101 Series.
Also in the domain of street photography; once again, seeking to empower, motivate, and share philosophical and pragmatic information and knowledge to help other photographers become more confident, courageous, and more certain of themselves and what they do. Also I just want other photographers to become happier.
Physical courage and strength and photography
Am I the first person to have thought that there is a link between physical strength, physical courage, and photography?
For example, my 705 pound squat hold, atlas lift. As I have been increasing my personal physical strength, creating new personal records in my one repetition maximum list, I have become so insanely confident and strong, I am out of control.
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Human Biology
Marines Talent Management 2030:
In praise of older, more mature talent:
Advancements in neuroscience since 1985 have significantly expanded our understanding of the human brain, which we now know does not fully develop until a person reaches their early to mid-twenties. Until that point, a person is psychologically at a deficit, more likely to make poor decisions and accept unnecessary risk, and less able to control impulses. Marine Corps safety data support this finding: our youngest Marines are responsible for a disproportionate share of the total costs to the service as a result of mishaps, both on- and off-duty. Our youngest Marines are also responsible for a disproportionate share of misconduct across the force. This simple fact of biology cannot be overcome by training, education, or leadership.
Biology cannot be overcome by training, education, or leadership.
More physically fit, more physically mature.
Thought —
More wisdom in the military, and military generals than others.
General Gray — Grayisms as really fascinating.
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THOUGHTS ON CRAFTING YOUR OWN IDEAL LIFE
The ideal life as via negativa — what NOT to have to do or be concerned with!
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Intelligence and Fitness
How to become a high-quality American?
Retention over recruitment.
Invest and retain.
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True Incentives?
What truly motivates people? I cannot speak for women, but let me speak for men:
For men, I believe true motivators include the lust and desire to conquer, augment, to build, and also to destroy. I think men desire more power, both physiologically and metaphorically.
How to Think Infinite Pay and money are not true motivators
We are incentivized by greater challenges. The privilege of even more of a monster of a challenge!
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Talent
Talentum, talanton — weight, towards weighing gold.
Idea:
There is no such thing as “talented†people — the notion of “talent†is to simply weigh someone, and show their worth or value.
Talent Management 2030 Design — towards lethality, effectiveness:
Think space. Think cyber.
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How to Become a More Productive Photographer
The more photos you produce and make, the happier you will become:
Why productive photography?
To be a productive photographer simply means that you produce many photos. In modern day life, when we think about productivity, we tend to just think of people who are really good at sending emails and being responsive. This is not real productivity. Real productivity is actually creating and producing things, not to simply respond and be responsive to others.
Muscle and Photography
I have an interesting theory; I believe there is actually a deep link between muscle and photography. That, the more I build muscle, the more muscular I become, and the stronger I become, I also become a happier and more productive photographer.
Delete Instagram
The best way to become more motivated in your photography is to delete your Instagram. Also, just upload all your photos to your own website blog.
No metrics
Metrics are bad. Metrics mediocritizes. That means, the more you add metrics to something, the more mediocre you become.
Why do we feel this pressure to always add metrics to everything? My theory is because the modern-day man has no self-esteem, and feels that in order to justify himself, or feel mighty and strong, he must tie his self-esteem and his self ego to a number, or metrics.
However, how is this bad? Numbers are a slave mentality.
There is no such thing as progress
“Progress†is a modern notion, and also a bad notion.
When you think about “progress“, typically it is tied to numbers. That when you see the number go up, it is a good thing. And when you see the numbers go down, it is a bad thing.
However, numbers are a funny thing because sometimes when a number goes up it is good, and sometimes when the number goes down it is good. And sometimes when the number goes up it is bad, and sometimes when the number goes down it is bad. It is highly context dependent.
For example, increasing your fat and adipose tissue and seeing the number go up is bad. To see your body fat percentage, and your adipose fat tissue going down is a good thing.
The fewer followers, the better.
The basic thought we have as photographers is that the more likes, comments, and the more followers we get, the better. But should this really be the goal? Maybe not. For example, assuming that we are the new Spartans, maybe it is better to see the numbers go down. Rather than having 1 million Persian slaves, better to have the elite spartan 300.
Also a funny thing, when you see certain numbers go up, for example, enrollment numbers at a University of California university, it is typically seen as a bad thing. Better to be a Harvard or a Brown University, in which, the enrollment is actually very very low. To become more prestigious is actually to have fewer people.
Or, let us consider a party. If you’re having a rich and famous Hollywood party, what is better, to have a single Kim Kardashian attend your party, or 1 million nobodies?
Or with fashion, is it better to on 1000 articles of H&M clothing, or a handful of Balenciaga clothes?
See the world from a child’s eyes
What is the best way to see and experience the world? The purity of a child’s eyes. Child’s mind, child’s eyes.
Spend more time with kids.
For example, spending more time with my niece and nephew Benjamin and Amelia. Amelia is now seven years old, and she still has fresh eyes. Even more pure is Benjamin, who is only four years old.
Even something I have discovered is that once kids enter school, they lose some purity of their mind. They fall more victim to trying to fit in, and their own true individual preferences become overshadowed by peer pressure, and trying to fit in.
I really think that the traditional K-12 education, even the modern-day university system is bad for individuality and creativity. Even for myself, the last decade, I’ve been trying my best to unlearn, and desocialize myself from past biases.
Kill our masters
I believe a really big advance for our own creativity is to kill our past masters in photography. This means, disregard what our masters have said in the past, and we must start afresh. Start anew.
What does master even mean? Master means maestro, teacher. At a certain point, we must become the teacher, we must become the master.
Create your own new photographic mode of existence
How to become your own master in photography:
Realize and recognize that now, you are your own independent thinker, photographer, and you become the teacher.
How can you teach photography? Simple — on your own blog, your own email newsletter, your own YouTube channel, your own podcast, etc.
For example if we think about the Matrix, Morpheus was initially the teacher of Neo. But there’s a certain point in which Neo becomes the new master.
Carte blanche it all.
Carte blanche means blank slate. A fresh new piece of paper. A new fresh beginning, wiping the slate clean.
Disregard all of the past bias in photography, and start new.
ERIC
Have a fresh new start in your photographic life
- Conquer your fears in Boston March 25
- Conquer innovation in Berkeley April 15
- Empty your mind in HADONG SOUTH KOREA June 19-23rd
New Tools
HAPTIC TOOLS to conquer it all:
Random News, things on my mind
- The Decisive Decade — National Defense Authorization — apparently President Biden just signed a new defense treaty, which is nearly $1 trillion. My practical thought is really at this point, money is just a fiction. Where did this $800 billion come from? Some nerd at a computer pressing a button. My long-term thought is this will continue to devalue the US dollar, and fiat currency in general. Maybe this is actually a good sign for crypto and Bitcoin. Money seems fake. I say now is a good time to start buying and hoarding more Bitcoin.
- How to think infinite
- Just hit the 705 pound squat lift atlas hold — feeling god mode.
- Infinite potential — the beauty of America and free enterprise is that technically, and entrepreneurially thinking, we have no limits.
Get real feedback on your photos
Upload them to arsbeta.com
Think deeper
Have a Chat with WHY APP?
Photo Assignments
- On your standalone digital camera, whether it be a Ricoh, a Leica, Fuji, etc., shoot everything that you eat and drink. I think this is a good strategy if you want to stop eating sugar, and other things that make you fat.
- Buy a GoPro, or the new GoPro mini, and just shoot it Ultra Wide mode, and record yourself lifting at the gym. Funny enough, I find that watching videos of myself working out is more motivating than watching other videos of other people working out.
- Stop using Lightroom. Just switch to Apple photos, and I also recommend getting an iPad Pro, the 11 inch, and using it to review all your photos. Also just shoot JPEG, the best way.
More ideas
“Better to make a bad photo that no photo.â€
EK
EK PHOTO TURBO NEWSLETTER MOTIVATION
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How to Think Infinite
On thinking infinite and beyond:
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INFINITE POTENTIAL.
Also infinite directions and opportunities. The upside of free enterprise, freedom of self employment, sole proprietorship, the freedom to be self employed, self owned, self directed.
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GOD MODE.
How to go god mode:
Just broke the 700 pound barrier for my atlas lift, squat push lift hold.
New total: 705 pounds.
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PRODUCE YOUR OWN HAPPINESS
One rep max attempts at the gym!
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PRODUCE YOUR OWN HEAT
Literally and metaphorically. When it is cold, and you’re cold, just go to the gym and lift heavy!
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Gut Decisions
The best decisions are gut decisions.
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Good News for Crypto and Bitcoin
Biden just pumped $800 billion dollars, around 1 trillion dollars into the Defense.gov US Military.
Funny enough, this is a bad sign for fiat currency. Why? The more that the US government prints fake money to pump up the US military, assigned that somewhere, this system makes no sense.
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The Decisive Decade
The US military department of defense concept and strategy (PDF).
- Building enduring advantages (integrated deterrence)
- Campaigning
- Anti authoritarianism (PRC — People Republic of China).
- United-States-ROK (Republic of Korea, South Korea)
- Gray Zone Activities
- Deterrence by Denial
- Lethal (anti access)
- Free Minds, Free Enterprise
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The Fewer Followers, the Better
All you need is 300.
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How Fashion is Bad
people want to buy beautiful clothes in order to become beautiful, but in fact, the only beauty is the body, your own human body.
Instead of spending all that money on fashion, beautiful clothes, beautiful accessories, beautiful cars, beautiful bags, beautiful wallets, beautiful watches, etc., instead use that money time and effort at the gym, at yoga, weightlifting, and meat.
