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Create for your 18 year old self:

How to create:
The Pixel phone — should be optimized for “infinite creationâ€. Deep integration with Google Photos, unlimited photos and video storage, and uber-optimized to create vlogs and upload them directly to YouTube directly from your Pixel phone!
Should be more a focus on being the ultimate “content creation†tool and device — focus and optimize it, maybe introduce a special “vlogging†selfie mode on the in camera app?
If they call it “luxuryâ€, it is not true luxury.
Lesson to the luxury market—
Never call it “luxuryâ€.
Note to Hyundai Genesis.
Thought — offer consulting and marketing for those high end apartment buildings, and get free rent in return?
Same when you’re traveling — offer to do a free promo video for a high end hotel in exchange for free boarding.
How to start lifting weights at the gym:
Do your work related things while at the gym! The best place to get hyped!
It is the ultimate dynamic form of creative art making
Anti-SD cards or external memory cards.
The ultimate luck and privilege as a man, your wife giving birth to a male heir.
How to master marketing:

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!
Never stop innovating.

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.


































Or a living room on wheels?
Freedom of movement, freedom of activity, freedom to do or not do as one pleases.
The risk is the reward:
Shoot a wedding like a street photographer.
Also, how I shot my own wedding, in a street photography style.
(more…)The best way to approach life is to think that everything and everyone else is just a minor annoyance.
Strive to become as insanely mega as you can!
Also on the contrary —
Great body, great mind.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The ideal life as via negativa — what NOT to have to do or be concerned with!
How to become a high-quality American?
Retention over recruitment.
Invest and retain.
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.
We are incentivized by greater challenges. The privilege of even more of a monster of a challenge!
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.

The more photos you produce and make, the happier you will become:
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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 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?
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.
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.
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 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
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On thinking infinite and beyond:
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.
How to go god mode:
Just broke the 700 pound barrier for my atlas lift, squat push lift hold.
New total: 705 pounds.
One rep max attempts at the gym!