A great way to build more courage in ever day life is approaching strangers, and attempting to talk and interact with them.
For example, at the gym. If there are actually people you would like to talk to, whether it be a pretty girl, a pretty boy, or a buff guy, etc.,
First and foremost, don’t use headphones, AirPods, anything in your ears. Or anything covering your ears. This is the biggest detriment to interacting and engaging with others.
Meta Quest Pro — this could be the next great big thing. However some problems:
First of all, the marketing material is just not that interesting. To talk about comfort and optics is uninteresting. Rather, more excitement should be built in on the possibility of a new human experience. For example, the concepts should be to immerse the user into some sort of ready player one reality.
Secondly, I think this is an interesting idea; considering it costs $1500 USD, there should be some sort of anchoring concept that it is still cheaper than a MacBook Pro laptop, or even buying a Lamborghini. That, in virtual reality, you can buy own and drive your own Lamborghini, for only $1500 USD. Or, $1500 USD is still cheaper than buying a $1.5 million home. There was a little bit marketing material that talks about being able to design a living room, wouldn’t it be a beautiful idea to think that virtual reality could uplift your real reality, by making your real life and surroundings more beautiful?
Third, I personally think that the future virtual reality isn’t about virtual collaboration. Instead, for the individual user to become some sort of digital demigod; being able to create a brand new world by him or herself.
Greater risks, greater fates:
Upon much thinking and consideration, the interesting innovation that I have is that the risk is the reward. That is, you don’t risk in order to gain a greater reward, but instead, attempting to risk, the risk itself is the thrill, adventure, and the fun.
Towards a new concept of a rack hold; the concept is basically you just try to get under the barbell, lift the barbell a little bit off the rack, and then hold it on your shoulders, full extension with your legs thighs, bear the weight on your shoulders, and then place back the weight.
Benefits: monster demigod thighs, adamantine back and spine, shoulders, increase testosterone, mood, zen zone hype mode.
Just risk it. Zen god mode:
The fun and joy of risk:
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Not enough to just be “healthy“, but instead, to seek to become hyper healthy . A new level of healthiness ever seen before.
Hyper health.
Why are you must focus on your human physiology
If you focus on and optimize for your own bodily human physiology, everything else will succeed.
The point of life is not productivity! Said all unproductive people.
A very empowering thought is this; how can we reap the upsides of something, without having the downsides?
Perhaps this is what stoicism is all about, to extract the maximum upside of existence and being alive, while clipping the downside.
Assuming you live in Southern California, the suburbs, or pretty much anywhere in America, we are still very reliant on cars.
Some thoughts:
First of all, is the ideal life for lifestyle in which you just don’t need to drive?
For example, currently I am very lucky that I could just walk to the local gym. This is good, as while I walk, I gain many interesting thoughts and ideas during my walk, I could think more, it aids in my digestion, and also I could blog while walking, or even blog while walking.
First thought: the more time and steps you could walk in a given day, the best.
The most privilege lifestyle is a life in which you could walk 30,000 steps a day, or maybe be outdoors 12 hours a day.
A simple thought is that a small commute is actually good. In someways, there is some zen while driving. For example, I actually do enjoy driving a little bit every single day, whenever I drive Cindy to do yoga, visit the local Costco business center, etc.
Also a fun innovation that I’ve been doing is doing some vlogging while driving, I just put my GoPro hero on Ultra Wide mode, and I place it where I typically put my phone GPS mount.
Thus, driving a little bit every day is good, maybe a total of 30 to 40 minutes a day, combined.
A lot of people in modern day life, must commute to work. But, should this be the case?
For example, if your job just allows you to work anywhere where you have a Wi-Fi connection, why drive or commute or be stuck in traffic to get to the office? To me this is insanely bizarre.
To drive a little bit every day is good, but it seems the goal should just be to reduce the total time.
Perhaps this way, having a Tesla or auto pilot is actually not necessary. Maybe better to have some sort of cheap manual transmission car to just get from point a to point B, and to actually enjoy driving.
The question:
How to reap the upsides without the downsides.
Bonsai, your social circle.
The ideal is to do something you’re passionate about, and also something that makes a lot of money. That means, something which is valued in modern day society:
Marketing, advertising, product, product design, lifestyle, etc.
Not good news. Going to an Apple store recently, during this holiday season, the store is practically empty, the workers looked deflated, no zest or cheer, and the consumers look bored.
Lots of security guards and doors, also looking bored.
Not only that, the iPhone, the flagship, is collecting dust on the shelves. I think Apple is having a hard time selling them. The question is:
Now that there is the iPhone Pro, which is only marginally a little bit more expensive, what incentive does a customer have in purchasing a normal iPhone compared to an iPhone pro? Once again, to an American, shelling out a few extra bucks for the Pro version is marginal.
A marketing suggestion for the iPhone, the best way to brand it is “the best of all worlds.â€
Also, with a marketing image, you see a normal iPhone and an iPhone plus. A simple thought is that both hands should have a different color, for example, the hand on the left should have a darker pigment, and the hand on the right should be a lighter pigment. Showing some sort of diversity.
Also, Apple should use different colored phones. The normal size iPhone, and iPhone plus in the marketing image material, should look different.
Maybe in order to simplify the lineup, Apple should just get rid of the normal iPhone. Either just offer the iPhone Pro, or the iPhone SE.
For example, let’s say you already have an iPhone 13 Pro. There really a strong enough motivation to upgrade to an iPhone 14 Pro?
Things should be designed in such a way in which they are.
Would a Tesla autopilot really help here?
Also —
Does different models of a car truly help reduce driving fatigue?
For example, assuming you did have auto pilot, would there actually be a difference between driving the Tesla model three, Y, X anS in regards to driving fatigue? Which of these models would afford you the least amount of driving fatigue?
All of these maladies, depressions, physiological darkness — a consequence of under-nourishment, not enough carnivore meat consumption?
Clutch, deus ex machina.
When the actions or behaviors of others are in a way which rubs you the wrong way, a stoic strategy is to just think of them as sick patients in a hospital, somebody with cancer, or some sort of life killing disease. They cannot help but be the way they are, think of them and treat them like sick patients. Perhaps with empathy but also keep your distance. You don’t want them to infect you!
I have a passion for words, language, marketing and branding language, etc.
Take the risk!
Sun exposure, UV exposure, idea exposure, photo exposure, fame exposure etc.
The only type of books to read.
To be petty — insanely below us.
Our three keys towards the happiest life
A new thought: it is a vice to be interested in other people, whether good or bad. As an experiment, spend a month to not praise anybody else, or critique anybody else. Better yet, it is OK to have thoughts about other people, but never air your thoughts about other people. Force yourself not to order a single word about another human being, besides yourself, your wife or your kid.
When you see or witness something that you don’t like, physically turn your body away from it or that person or those people, and also avert your eyes. This is a good stoic approach to things.
I remember taking AP statistics in high school, and learning about the notion of the “outlierâ€. That when you had a certain data point 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.
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.
Do you seek to be understood, or, do you seek to become more of an enigma?
Some ideas:
A simple question; why be an outlier?
First of all, you probably are. This means that recognize that every single human being is different. Also each of us should glorify him or herself on being unique.
Second, our desire to move and change the world.
What does it mean to be self reliant? Simply put, your ego, self-esteem, and your power is within yourself. You are not a slave to the opinions of others. For example, if you are reliant on peer review for anything, you are not free.
For example, if you have some philosophical thoughts, know that you do not require peer review, or an editor to review, critique, or acknowledge your ideas. The philosopher thinks first principles, and is not dependent on any external authority besides him or herself. The philosopher doesn’t need to base his or her theories on statistics, the opinions of others, etc. The philosopher bases their thoughts based on what they believe in.
For example, my hypelifting or ZENLIFTING notion.
Don’t just do things the same as others. Think carte blanche, and do things differently.
For example, when it comes to squat, no need to squat all the way to the floor. Instead, just being able to unrack the weight a little bit is enough. Even trying to go “parallel†or “below parallelâ€â€” is this truly necessary?
For example, my passion for Zen, and being able to cross pollinate it to other notions. For example, zen capitalism, zen photography, zen street photography, the Zen of hypelifting, or zenlifting.
Refuse to be constrained within narrow and reductive category. Instead, know that instead, a better goal is to extend all of your different passions and interests into wide ranging areas.
For example, am I the first to have figured out that the stronger I become at the gym, the stronger I become as a writer, thinker, photographer, entrepreneur, and thinker?
You must have pride in being an outlier, and it seems that a noble goal is to strive to become more of an outlier. To refuse to have the same desires as others, and the same language and notions of others.
Outlier —
To be out. To be outside of the basic simple categories.
Where everyone else is… get really far away from them. Go beyond, think beyond, become beyond.
It seems that in today’s consumers capitalist world, the way that people seek differentiation is through consumerism. By having a different car, different clothes, even other superficial things like listening to different types of music, movies, etc. This type of differentiation is superficial at best. Nay, not even superficial.
What you must do instead is become more of an outlier through your actions. Through your words, your ideas, to become more wolflike, and less sheeplike.
Just think to yourself: what would a wolf do?
Would a wolf eat kale and quinoa? No. The wolf would consume liver, heart, intestines, and other organ meat high in cholesterol. Would the wolf consume sugar, “vegetables?†No.
Also, is the wolf meek, and yielding no? The wolf is lean, mean, hard, stoic, and aggressive when it needs to be.
Better to be a gay (happy and jovial) monster than to be a sentimental bore. Via Nietzsche — via Galliani.
Another outlier thought; it is actually more uncommon to be happy than to be dark, morose and cynical.
Have you ever met a happy person? I haven’t. The only happy people I know include myself, and kids.
In fact, a funny bias is that in today’s world, one is not permitted to be happy. Why? All of this strange weaklings who say —
How dare you be happy when there is so much pain, suffering, and bad things happening in the world!
It becomes a virtue to bemoan the dark side of the world, while one still enjoys their wine and cheese at their homes. There is this French notion of “caviar Socialism“, in which where it is ironically enough, the rich and privileged people who bemoan most about poverty and injustices, while merrily munching on their cucumber sandwiches, etc. Essentially like a Bill Gates.
I say choose to be happy, choose to be gay. It actually takes more skill and courage to be happy, jovial and gay, than it is to be critical, cynical, and a nay sayer.
One: no Instagram, Facebook, or social media. If you truly want to be an outlier, think to yourself,
It is more interesting to be a photographer without an Instagram, than a photographer with.
In fact, once at a wedding party, when I told this one guy that I was a photographer, and then he asked me what my Instagram was, and I told him that I didn’t have Instagram/deleted it, he was actually very impressed. He said, wow, a photographer without an Instagram, that takes serious balls.
Ironically enough in today’s world, one is best differentiated by what one doesn’t own, or what one doesn’t do, or what one doesn’t consume, eat, drink, watch, listen to, etc.
For example, do you know anyone who doesn’t use email? Who doesn’t own a car? Who doesn’t have any streaming subscriptions, who doesn’t have a Netflix account? Who doesn’t use text messaging, who doesn’t use headphones or AirPods, who doesn’t watch TV or shows, who doesn’t consume carbs, or doesn’t eat breakfast and lunch?
Or a man who doesn’t drink alcohol? No beer, no wine, no whiskey or spirits? Also doesn’t drink anything besides water, or black coffee?
Or a man who doesn’t consume rice, snacks, sugar, fruit, potatoes, pasta, noodles, bread, etc.
Also doesn’t listen to any podcasts, or music besides Kanye West.
In order to become more of an outlier, you must denounce and renounce many things. Just think to yourself;
I am the outlier. I ain’t got no time for any basic things or basic people.
ERIC
No basic travels, no basic experiences. Only choose the enigmatic:
No basic thoughts allowed.
What should we seek this holiday season? Some thoughts:
Seek innovation. Innovate yourself, vlog innovation thoughts and just share them to YouTube! Vlog from your iPhone or iPad!
How to Start Your Own Photography YouTube Channel
If this sparked any interesting thoughts within you, feel free to forward to a friend!
Become the monster.
ERIC
Have the courage to speak your mind, even if you’re going to get angry, be aggressive, yell, etc.
My extreme joy of being able to be outdoors, in the direct light, and the direct sun, while using my iPad Pro.
It seems in today’s modern world, we don’t like to think that hormones exist, or affect us. We like to think that our mind is supreme, and can overcome and conquer any sort of hormonal considerations.
I have a theory that weightlifting helps us to activate certain hormonal pathways in the body which activates muscle building, skeletal muscle accumulation, as well as strengthening our bones, sinews, and our bodies. Also, these positive hormones are good, as it uplifts our mood, makes us more happy and gay and joyful, and motivates us.
A simple thought; think and realize that if hormones play a huge role in our own physiological well-being, think of things as some sort of hormonal thing.
For example, if you want to be happier, how can you shift your hormones to be more happy? More time walking, in the direct sun, hiking, seeing varying terrain, interacting with other humans, etc.
Let us also consider that interacting with other humans shifts our hormones in good ways. For example, witnessing a beautiful woman, or even a beautiful man, will shift our hormones in a positive way.
Or, a more funny example, imagine that you are a heterosexual man, and you are strapped to a chair, and then somebody forces you to watch some very sexy pornography. Can you force yourself to not have a boner? No. There are some things we cannot control.
Contrary to what these dark and morose people think, I think it is our virtue and our duty to be happy, joyful, and gay!
Better to be a gay (happy and jovial) monster than to be a sentimental bore.
Via Nietzsche — via Galliani.
Gai— old French. Joyful, merry.
Nietzsche has this fun book called the joyful wisdom, or “La Gaya Scienciaâ€. Basically it is a book about joy.
I think in life, one actually does have the option to choose to be dark and morose, or to be gay and jovial.
Eat more carne, red meat, flesh, beef ribs, beef liver, etc.
I have a funny theory; have you ever met a vegetarian or vegan person who doesn’t drink beer or alcohol? I haven’t. Why?
When one adopts a vegetarian or vegan diet, they become weaker and more physiologically depressive, and thus need to offshoot their physiological depression with alcohol.
Play people tend to be dark and Rose tend to prefer dark and unlit places. Bright and happy and joyful and Gabe people prefer to be outdoors, in the natural light.
Be the gay monster instead!
Basic people, basic thinking, basic concerns, etc.
Basic gossip, basic drama, basic interactions.
Better to be a gay monster than a sentimental bore:
Anyone who is too into specialty coffee is signaling some sort of oversensitivity and weakness. Real men drink robusta. Higher caffeine content, and also, less sugar. Theory; because arabica is very sweet, is it just another form of sugar?
Why be different? What is the upside of being different, living different, and being different?
