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?
One day we will see:
This ARCO now accepts crypto!
Also, getting angry, or annoyed; how to deal with this?
A lot of stoic philosophers dealt with issues of anger, even Seneca “De Iraâ€. However, anger shouldn’t be an emotion or feeling that we seek to expiate from ourselves and get rid of. Rather, anger is a great source of intelligence; how can we leverage it to our benefit?
There is nothing which puts a bigger smile on my face than reviewing photos of Sen.
I remember taking AP statistics in high school, and learning about the notion of the “outlierâ€. 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.
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.
Zen and hype:
You can do it!
Perhaps what I do is zenlifting, having to go to the zen zone before lifting something:
Wolverine — wolf.
Once a nerd, always a nerd.
You are the solo, full stack solution:
First and foremost, why should we seek self reliance as a desired thing or end? For me, it is a power thing. If you are 100% self-reliant, nothing can get in your way. You are unstoppable because there are no gate keepers or annoying things which get in your way.
Just think to yourself, if you don’t have to rely on anybody else for anything, isn’t this the ultimate empowering thought?
Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!
Never stop innovating.
Perhaps the most ethical thing we could do is not offer to “help†others, but to just focus on helping ourselves.
The art of ignoring:
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.
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.
This is a “bad stoic strategyâ€; 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.
A pragmatic Stoic strategy to “ignore†people or to retain your zen calm.
Become invincible:
Learn from the master stoics:
Yes, you can and will change the world.
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.
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.
I think part of it is an innate human love of humanity.
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.
I remember taking AP statistics in high school, and learning about the notion of the “outlierâ€. 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.
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.
I do you seek to be understood, or, do you seek to become more of an enigma?
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.
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.
